Research Article
Crossroads: A Framework for Developing Proximity-based Social Interactions
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-11569-6_14, author={Chieh-Jan Liang and Haozhun Jin and Yang Yang and Li Zhang and Feng Zhao}, title={Crossroads: A Framework for Developing Proximity-based Social Interactions}, proceedings={Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. 10th International Conference, MOBIQUITOUS 2013, Tokyo, Japan, December 2-4, 2013, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS}, year={2014}, month={12}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-11569-6_14} }- Chieh-Jan Liang
Haozhun Jin
Yang Yang
Li Zhang
Feng Zhao
Year: 2014
Crossroads: A Framework for Developing Proximity-based Social Interactions
MOBIQUITOUS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11569-6_14
Abstract
Proximity-based Social Interaction (PSI) apps are emerging on mobile platforms. While both industries and academic communities have developed frameworks to simplify the PSI app development, our framework, Crossroads, brings a set of features to balance the development overhead and developer expressiveness. We argue that APIs with application hints give developers the expressiveness, and core services (such as virtual links over the star topology) simplify network maintenance. Finally, PSI-specific primitives (such as presence beaconing with interval decaying and group dissemination) improve the energy efficiency. Evaluation results on real smartphones show the energy efficiency gain, topology robustness, and lower group dissemination load.