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Analysis of Group-Based Communication in WhatsApp

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This work investigates group-based communication in WhatsApp based on a survey and the analysis of messaging logs. The characteristics of WhatsApp group chats in terms of usage and topics are outlined. We present a classification based on the topic of the group and classify anonymized messaging logs based on message statistics. Finally, we model WhatsApp group communication with a semi-Markov process, which can be used to generate network traffic similar to real messaging logs.

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Acknowledgement

This work was partly funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grants HO 4770/1-2 and TR257/31-2, and in the framework of the EU ICT Project SmartenIT (FP7-2012-ICT-317846). The authors alone are responsible for the content.

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  1. Insitute of Computer Science, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Michael Seufert, Anika Schwind & Phuoc Tran-Gia

  2. Chair of Modeling of Adaptive Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Tobias Hoßfeld

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  1. Dpto. Ingeniería de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

    Ramón Agüero

  2. Lehrstuhl für Informatik III, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Thomas Zinner

  3. Dpt. de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Castelldefels, Spain

    Mario García-Lozano

  4. Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland

    Bernd-Ludwig Wenning

  5. Institute of Communication Networks, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

    Andreas Timm-Giel

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Seufert, M., Schwind, A., Hoßfeld, T., Tran-Gia, P. (2015). Analysis of Group-Based Communication in WhatsApp. In: Agüero, R., Zinner, T., García-Lozano, M., Wenning, BL., Timm-Giel, A. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 158. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26925-2_17

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