SocioCar: a transient social vehicular network. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Esmaeilyfard, Rasool; Hendessi, Faramarz
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 19:Number 3/4(2015)
• Page Start: 221
• Page End: 240
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: transient social networking -- ephemeral social networking -- social service middleware -- avatars -- privacy -- VANETs -- vehicular ad-hoc networks -- social classification -- social networks -- user identity -- Bayesian networks; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

The increasing use of vehicles and the heavy traffic emerged in metropolises have both turn to an important part of people's daily routine. This situation could provide a unique opportunity for some kind of social communication among people. However, this social communication has its requirements and constraints. In this paper, we introduce the notion of SocioCar to develop a transient social vehicular network service. This service inspires the users to communicate quickly by reducing social constraints. In this regard, one of the key points in this paper is the idea to adapt the user identity and its role in rapid communication. Furthermore, we integrate our design with a user social classification method using Bayesian Networks with an aim to effectively highlight the desired users and predict users' characteristics. Through this approach, we investigate the social classification model and conduct a user study to probe the usefulness of social network.