Marauder's Map--Bringing People Together

Abstract

Social Networking applications have gained immense popularity amongst students in the last few years. Unfortunately, all such services currently require internet connectivity which inhibits their usefulness when a person is on the move. In this paper we describe a mobile platform, Marauder's Map which enables social networking on the go, by allowing users to keep track of their friends and their activities in a peer to peer fashion using a novel human-based social network routing protocol.