Paper Info
Title
Ad-hoc voice-based group communication
Abstract
People waste many hours driving each day. Although unavoidable, this time can be very boring to motorists. Similar to people taking mass transit who often pass the time socializing with those around them, motorists could benefit from social interactions if they were given broader social opportunities. Unfortunately, existing Multiparty Voice Communication (MVC) systems do not scale to large numbers of users and do not provide adequate access controls. We present RoadSpeak, a scalable MVC system that allows motorists to automatically join Voice Chat Groups (VCGs) along popular roadways. RoadSpeak achieves interruption-free communication through the use of voice chat message buffering, flow control and in-order delivery of voice messages to participants. We have implemented a RoadSpeak prototype on Nokia N95 smart phones using 3G cellular networking for voice message transfer. We have also built an MVC simulator to perform large-scale simulations that compare RoadSpeak with existing MVC systems. The results of our evaluation prove the feasibility of RoadSpeak and demonstrate that it performs similarly to a traditional MVC systems while supporting substantially larger groups of users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/PERCOM.2010.5466977
PerCom
Keywords
Field
DocType
in-order delivery,voice chat groups,ad-hoc voice-based group communication,flow control,interruption-free communication,wireless mesh networks,internet telephony,voice chat message buffering,roadspeak,mobile computing,cellular network,access control,social interaction,group communication
Mobile computing,Computer science,Voice communication,Communication in small groups,Computer network,Voice chat,Scalability,Voice over IP
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-5328-3
7
0.62
References 
Authors
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lu Han1864.62
Stephen Smaldone21259.18
Pravin Shankar329614.60
James Boyce4101.15
Liviu Iftode52112148.14