01135nas a2200133   4500008004100000020002200041245005500063210005500118260003600173520069500209100002800904700001500932856005400947       2010                        eng d  a978-1-4244-5175-300aMobile Social Closeness and Communication Patterns0 aMobile Social Closeness and Communication Patterns  aPiscataway, NJ, USAbIEEE Press3 a<p>As mobile networks expand rapidly to facilitate the rising number of mobile phone population, more mobile social services are being developed and offered. To create an efficient social functionality, characteristics of mobile social network must be studied. Social closeness is one of the basic fundamentals of any kind of social networking. In this paper, closeness in mobile social network is the subject of the study, from which social grouping scheme is proposed and validated against the feedbacks of human subjects. Based on the proposed grouping scheme, a study of the impact of the mobile social closeness to the similarity in calling patterns and reciprocity is presented.</p>
1 aPhithakkitnukoon, Santi1 aDantu, Ram  uhttp://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1834217.1834285