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Social Networking has extremely impacted the communication habits of people on the internet. On the other hand, increasingly people carry their treasured multimedia content in small mobile devices like smart phones, PDAs, mp3/dvd players, memory sticks, cameras, and so forth. Tremendous interesting customized applications can be imagined with spontaneous social networking over mobile devices in the events/locations such as conferences, expositions, galleries, stadiums, and finally bars and restaurants. Enabling people to share their experiences, to communicate, and to have access to the comments of others without need to have internet access and with minimum required infrastructure is the main idea behind spontaneous social networking. Considering, auto-organization, scalability, and distributed architecture, P2P technology can play the key role in creating such kind of social networking.
The focus of this special issue is on the P2P spontaneous social networks. The limited resources on the mobile devices, the ad hoc wireless network instability, and the mobility of the nodes raise important challenges. The scalability of the feeding system, the reliability, data dissemination, and adaptation to the restrictions in ad hoc networks conditions can be considered as the main humps in the way. This special issue invites the original papers in the following topics, not limited to them:
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located athttp://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:
Manuscript Due | August 1, 2009 |
First Round of Reviews | November 1, 2009 |
Publication Date | February 1, 2010 |