AdChatRep: a reputation system for MANET chatting

  • Authors:
  • Zheng Yan;Yu Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Aalto University/XiDian University, Espoo, Finland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of 1st international symposium on From digital footprints to social and community intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is becoming a practical platform for pervasive social networking. People chat with each other via MANET for instant social activities. How to help mobile users to build up trust in MANET chatting is becoming an interesting issue. We design AdChatRep, a reputation system for MANET chatting based on the result of a need assessment survey. We implement it by applying Nokia N900 smart phones as MANET nodes. We further conduct a two-session controlled user experiment to investigate the impacts of AdChatRep on mobile users. Results show the effectiveness of AdChatRep with regard to its usefulness and user acceptance.