TY - GEN
T1 - Decentralized mobile search and retrieval using SMS and HTTP to support social change
AU - Michel Lombera, Isaí
AU - Chuang, Yung-Ting
AU - Moser, L. E.
AU - Melliar-Smith, P. M.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Recent events have demonstrated the utility of mobile devices to coordinate mass gatherings and organize protests in support of social change and the cause of democracy. However, a common attack against the social networking abilities of mobile phone wielding protesters has been government action to censor centralized search and social networking sites. This paper describes a decentralized search and retrieval system, named iTrust, that provides greater resistance against the vulnerabilities inherent in centralized services. In particular, it describes the iTrust with SMS interface and the iTrust SMS-HTTP bridge, which enable any SMS-capable mobile phone to communicate with other nodes in the iTrust network. It also describes an Android mobile phone interface that builds on the basic SMS capabilities of a mobile phone and that offers a user-friendly way of accessing the iTrust with SMS implementation. Finally, the paper presents an evaluation of the iTrust search and retrieval system.
AB - Recent events have demonstrated the utility of mobile devices to coordinate mass gatherings and organize protests in support of social change and the cause of democracy. However, a common attack against the social networking abilities of mobile phone wielding protesters has been government action to censor centralized search and social networking sites. This paper describes a decentralized search and retrieval system, named iTrust, that provides greater resistance against the vulnerabilities inherent in centralized services. In particular, it describes the iTrust with SMS interface and the iTrust SMS-HTTP bridge, which enable any SMS-capable mobile phone to communicate with other nodes in the iTrust network. It also describes an Android mobile phone interface that builds on the basic SMS capabilities of a mobile phone and that offers a user-friendly way of accessing the iTrust with SMS implementation. Finally, the paper presents an evaluation of the iTrust search and retrieval system.
KW - HTTP
KW - SMS
KW - decentralized search and retrieval
KW - iTrust
KW - mobile search and retrieval
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869596338&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-32320-1_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-32320-1_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869596338
SN - 9783642323195
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
SP - 152
EP - 171
BT - Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services - Third International Conference, MobiCASE 2011, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, MobiCASE 2011
Y2 - 24 October 2011 through 27 October 2011
ER -