An Agent-based Mobile Social network

Abstract

Due the advances of mobile technologies along with the cost reduction of mobile devices, increase in network capabilities and services, more and more people are using cellphones not only as communication devices but also as an enhanced application support platform, e.g. media players, content production tools, web browsers and social networking. The proliferation of such devices has created a large demand for mobile applications like multimedia social networking software. This work presents JAMPS (Java and Agent-based Mobile P2P Social network), a social network system for mobile devices, which allows users to share messages and multimedia files on their cell phones when they are physically co-located. In particular, JAMPS is based on a peer-to-peer network architecture enabled by software agents and developed through the JADE-LEAP agent-based framework. The developed system, evaluated on a testbed based on smart phones and personal computers, has shown a very good performance in terms of scalability.