Fan, Bo, Leng, Supeng, Yang, Kun and He, Jianhua (2018). Gathering point-aided viral marketing in decentralized mobile social networks. IEEE Systems Journal, 12 (2), 1566 - 1576.
Abstract
Viral marketing is a technique that spreads advertisement information through social networks. Recently, viral marketing through online social networks has achieved huge commercial success. However, there are still very little research reported on viral marketing in decentralized mobile social networks (MSNs). Comparing with online viral marketing, viral marketing in decentralized MSNs faces many challenges, such as unreliable information diffusion and limited network knowledge. To address these problems, we propose the \textit{gathering point-aided mobile viral marketing (GP-MVM)} scheme, which contains two major components, i.e., \textit{seed selection} and \textit{information diffusion}. \textit{Seed selection} is responsible to select a set of seed nodes from which information diffusion begins. Based on a new metric called integrated contact strength (ICS), we propose two distributed seed selection schemes, i.e., \textit{ratio seeding} and \textit{threshold seeding}, while, for information diffusion, we propose the \textit{GP-aided diffusion} algorithm, which utilizes user GPs to promote information propagation. Continuous-time Markov chain-based analytical model shows that GP-MVM has a good scalability. Simulations indicate that GP-MVM outperforms two state-of-the-art information diffusion methods designed for MSNs, in terms of both diffusion proportion and diffusion speed.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2016.2520206 |
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Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Adaptive communications networks research group |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | gathering point,information diffusion,integrated contact strength,mobile social networks,viral marketing |
Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2024 07:30 |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2017 08:04 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2018-06-01 |
Published Online Date: | 2016-02-11 |
Accepted Date: | 2016-01-13 |
Submitted Date: | 2015-08-31 |
Authors: |
Fan, Bo
Leng, Supeng Yang, Kun He, Jianhua ( ![]() |