A Serverless Instant Messaging Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Anthony D. Urso

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • C5 '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Eighth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, the problems facing designers of peer-to-peer instant messaging protocols, specifically those intended to run over mobile ad-hoc networks, are discussed. In particular, the challenges of identity management and presence dissemination are addressed, with an efficient and user-friendly protocol described that solves them. As a side effect, a form of social network mining is offered that allows users of the protocol to be introduced to unfamiliar members of their social network. Finally, a method of grafting a sort of multicast chat room functionality onto the protocol is discussed.