A Gossip-Based Distributed Social Networking System

Abbas, Syed Muhammad; Pouwelse, Johan; Epema, Dick; Sips, Henk

doi:10.1109/wetice.2009.30

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“…The concern about the privacy issues of centralized OSNs motivated several attempts to decentralize them, creating several versions of DOSNs. These include PeerSoN [6][7][8][9]24], Safebook [10][11][12], and LotusNet [2,3]; as well as some others [1,13,16,22,25,26,29]. The basic idea underlying all these projects is that each member of the social networks keeps the data under its own control, instead of surrendering it to a central host.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks

Wang¹,

Minsky²

2015

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing

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The centralized nature of conventional OSNs poses serious risks to the privacy and security of information exchanged between their members. These risks prompted several attempts to create decentralized OSNs, or DOSNs. The basic idea underlying these attempts, is that each member of a social network keeps its data under its own control, instead of surrendering it to a central host, providing access to it to other members according to its own access-control policy. Unfortunately all existing versions of DOSNs have a very serious limitation. Namely, they are unable to subject the membership of a DOSN, and the interaction between its members, to any global policy-which is essential for many social communities. Moreover, the DOSN architecture is unable to support useful capabilities such as narrowcasting and profile-based search. This paper describes a novel architecture of decentralized OSNs-called DOSC, for "online social community". DOSC adopts the decentralization idea underlying DOSNs, but it is able to subject the membership of a DOSC-community, and the interaction between its members, to a wide range of policies, including privacy-preserving narrowcasting and profile-sensitive search.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks

Wang¹,

Minsky²

2015

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing

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“…To put an emphasis on the security on decentralized SNSs, user identify management mechanism was introduced by [4] and [6]. Reference [17] presented a particular protocol named a gossip protocol to find potential peers as friends aiming at the high scalability and robustness. In [18] and [20], by using encryption, privacy concerns over SNS were dealt with.…”

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confidence: 99%

Designing an Architecture of SNS Platform by Applying a Product Line Engineering Approach

Ryu

Liu

Baik

2012

2012 IEEE/ACIS 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Science

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The demand of new Social Networking Service (SNS) is high because the SNSs have been popular these days. In order to deliver various SNSs as early as possible, software product line (SPL) approach can be useful. By using the state of the practices of SPL, this paper shows how to manage commonalities and variabilities of SNS. Specifically, to make an architecture design, presented practices include: understanding relevant domains, requirements engineering, architecture definition. The strengths and weaknesses of Facebook architecture are evaluated with the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM). As a result of applying a framework for SPL practice, layered view and componentbased view are illustrated along with variabilities represented by Product Line UML-based Software Engineering (PLUS) and Orthogonal Variability Model (OVM). Based on the analysis of requirements of SNS, additional services such as filesharing and instant messaging are represented as optional components. In case of Facebook, three key quality attributes, i.e., availability, scalability, and privacy are analyzed by using quality attribute utility tree. We identified that Facebook employs client-server architecture. Through ATAM, Peer-toPeer (P2P) approach promoting privacy is explained.

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“…A recent research line have expanded this insights proposing decentralized frameworks suitable for SNSs [1,11,16], however, many design aspects should be explored further. In this context, Likir is an ideal platform for SNSs mainly for two reasons.…”

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An identity-based approach to secure P2P applications with Likir

Aiello

Milanesio

Ruffo

et al. 2011

Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl.

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Structured overlay networks are highly susceptible to attacks aimed at subverting their structure or functionalities. Although many secure architectural design proposals have been presented in the past, a widely accepted and comprehensive solution is lacking. Likir (Layered Identity-based Kademlia-like Infrastructure) is our solution for implementing a secure Peer-to-Peer network based on a Distributed Hash Table. Our purpose is to focus on three main goals:(1) providing security services and a secure overlay infrastructure against the vast majority of security threats on P2P systems, (2) dynamically creating a bridge between randomly generated peer identifiers and user identities, and (3) supplying the developer with a middleware API that can easily deal with peers' identities. Placing the emphasis on user identity results in a highly secure distributed framework which is very fitting for privacy-aware and efficient implementation of identitybased applications like social networking applications. Detailed security analysis and performance evaluation are provided. Moreover, an implementation of Likir is introduced and a case study is presented in order to show its practical use in a real-life example.

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A Gossip-Based Distributed Social Networking System

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks

A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks

Designing an Architecture of SNS Platform by Applying a Product Line Engineering Approach

An identity-based approach to secure P2P applications with Likir

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