A Mobile Peer-to-Peer Query in a Social Network

In the context of social relationships, mobile phones and their contacts construct a social network by nature. This paper focuses on the solution of problems in searching and sharing the resources of cellular phones in a social network. To solve this problem, we propose a mobile peer-to-peer query scheme that allows a mobile user to initiate a query which can be routed to the other users who are the participants of this social network. To realize our approach, we design and implement a social mobile application that enables mobile users to search a contact from their social network. In this paper, we discuss the results gained from the development experiences.