The simulation platform for mobile social networking

A Mobile Social Network (MSN) platform is proposed in this paper, which can be used to research and simulate in MSN. Location and relationship are main features of Mobile Social Network Service (MSNS). They can help with many studies, such as user behaviour analysis and group analysis. In our platform, we collect user location and relationship information from three famous MSNS & SNS (Foursquare, Second Life and RenRen) and propose API for sharing, so that researcher can acquire sufficient data in study. This method will be an effective solution for simulation in MSN.