Event-Based Mobile Social Networks: Services, Technologies and Applications

The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) and event-based social applications integrated with contextawareness ability can be helpful in planning and organizing social events like meetings, conferences, and tradeshows.

This paper first provides review of the event-based social networks and the basic principles and architecture of event-based MSNs. Next, event-based MSNs with smartphone contained technology elements such as context-aware mobility and multimedia sharing are presented. By combining the feature of context-aware mobility with multimedia sharing in event-based MSNs, event organizers and planners with the service providers optimize their capability to recognize value for the multimedia services they deliver.