Table 2 Various architectures in MSN
From: Content distribution and protocol design issue for mobile social networks: a survey
Approach | Example | Description | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
Recommendation system based | Contextualized recommendation [26] Social fusion [67] | Evaluates a set of social condition and context-aware actions, and to prove whether or not the conditions have been logically verified for both logically verified for both individual and groups of MSN users | Focus on analyzing and discovering the social relationships between users Fuse the data streams from mobile users, social networks and sensors |
Social identity based | Whoz That for [66] | Supports increasingly complex MSN applications | Online social identities with environment adaptive ecosystem |
Proximity based | G2G [68] | Provides a location-awareness MSN platform for personalized recommender systems and gaming | Collection of geographic-proximity information about GSM cells Detect preferences of nearby friends |
Architectural system based | Agent-based system architecture [63] Multidimensional social network architecture [58] | Provides system-level approaches to effectively collect, process, and utilize contextual data from a different source, and facilitate development and the development of context-aware MSN applications | Based on open interfaces between social networking platforms Generic models to deploy different specific context-aware schemes |