MyNet: A Platform for Secure P2P Personal and Social Networking Services

Kalofonos, D.N.; Antoniou, Z.; Reynolds, F.; Van-Kleek, M.; Strauss, Jacob; Wisner, Paul

doi:10.1109/percom.2008.40

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“…This class, named TestNearTweet, overloads two methods guiIn and guiOut that specifies how a virtual user provides input to the application and test output from the application. For the NearTweet application, input is performed by typing text in the input panel and pressing a button (lines 11-14), and output validation requires testing either the status panel (lines [22][23][24][25] or the output panel (lines [26][27][28][29]. Because the input and output places are parameterized by the T-Net graph, the tester methods receive an identifier (id for short) to differentiate in/out operations, and a parameter list of values to be used by the tester methods.…”

Section: T-net Specificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This capability has prompted new mobile applications that leverage occasional encounters of users in various social contexts, e.g., for mobile social networking [22,13,9], content sharing [15,12], mobile ad-hoc gaming [5,16], and more [19,21,31,24]. Specialized middleware [3, 32,25,18,7] has also been produced to facilitate the development of such applications. While the general term ad-hoc network has been used to designate opportunisticallyformed networks of devices (e.g., sensor networks), we use the term encounter networks to refer to this special case of ad-hoc networks that target co-located moving personal devices and involve social interactions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Termite: Emulation Testbed for Encounter Networks

Bruno¹,

Santos²,

Ferreira³

2015

Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

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Cutting-edge mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are equipped with various infrastructureless wireless interfaces, such as WiFi Direct and Bluetooth. Such technologies allow for novel mobile applications that take advantage of casual encounters between co-located users. However, the need to mimic the behavior of real-world encounter networks makes testing and debugging of such applications hard tasks.We present Termite, an emulation testbed for encounter networks. Our system allows developers to run their applications on a virtual encounter network emulated by software. Developers can model arbitrary encounter networks and specify user interactions on the emulated virtual devices. To facilitate testing and debugging, developers can place breakpoints, inspect the runtime state of virtual nodes, and run experiments in a stepwise fashion. Termite defines its own Petri Net variant to model the dynamically changing topology and synthesize user interactions with virtual devices. The system is designed to efficiently multiplex an underlying emulation hosting infrastructure across multiple developers, and to support heterogeneous mobile platforms. Our current system implementation supports virtual Android devices communicating over WiFi Direct networks and runs on top of a local cloud infrastructure. We evaluated our system using emulator network traces, and found that Termite is expressive and performs well.

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Section: T-net Specificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Termite: Emulation Testbed for Encounter Networks

Bruno¹,

Santos²,

Ferreira³

2015

Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

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“…Recently, several peer-to-peer (P2P) based distributed online social networks (DOSN) have been proposed to preserve users' privacy ( [57,68,42,114,76]). In all these solutions, users' data is not stored by a centralized OSN provider anymore.…”

Section: Appendix C Privacy Preserving Picture Sharing In Distributedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to avoid such a centralized control by service providers over user data, some solutions [57,68,42,114,76] propose to design new applications based on a peer-to-peer architecture while leveraging real life social links to construct a network with trusted peers. The correct execution of any network/application operation depends on users' behavior.…”

Section: C22 Decentralized Online Social Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks

Cutillo

Manulis²,

Strufe

2010

Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications

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3Uno solo è il mio desiderio, quello di vedervi felici nel tempo e nell'eternità.sac. Giovanni Bosco 4 Abstract Social network applications allow people to establish links and exchange information based on various interests such as professional activities, hobbies, et similia. Several commercial social networking platforms that came to light recently suddenly became extremely popular at the international arena. Apart from obvious advantages in terms of fast community building, rapid exchange of information at the professional and private level, social network platforms raise several issues concerning the privacy and security of their users. The goal of this thesis is to identify privacy and security problems raised by the social networks and to come up with the design of radically new architectures for the social network platform.As current social network platforms are based on centralized architectures that inherently threat user privacy due to potential monitoring and interception of private user information, the goal is to design social network platforms based on a distributed architecture in order to assure user privacy. New mechanisms are investigated in order to solve some classical security and trust management problems akin to distributed systems by taking advantage of the information stored in the social network platforms. Such problems range from trust establishment in self-organizing systems to key management without infrastructure to cooperation enforcement in peer-to-peer systems.This thesis suggests a new approach to tackle these security and privacy problems with a special emphasis on the privacy of users with respect to the application provider in addition to defense against intruders or malicious users. In order to ensure users' privacy in the face of potential privacy violations by the provider, the suggested approach adopts a decentralized architecture relying on cooperation among a number of independent parties that are also the users of the online social network application. The second strong point of the suggested approach is to capitalize on the trust relationships that are part of social networks in real life in order to cope with the problem of building trusted and privacy-preserving mechanisms as part of the online application. The combination of these design principles is Safebook, i ii Abstract a decentralized and privacy-preserving online social network application. Based on the two design principles, decentralization and exploiting real-life trust, various mechanisms for privacy and security are integrated into Safebook in order to provide data storage and data management functions that preserve users'privacy, data integrity, and availability.Apart from the design of Safebook, a signicant part of the thesis is devoted to its analysis and evaluation using various methods such as experimenting with real social network platforms. A special acknowledgement goes to seventeen among the best students I have ever met:

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“…There are also a number of initiatives that address peerto-peer (P2P) collaborations ( [9], [12], [15]) that address P2P collaborations. Similar calendar-based and/or enterprise networking tools are available for collaboration.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

R-U-In? - Exploiting Rich Presence and Converged Communications for Next-Generation Activity-Oriented Social Networking

Banerjee

Chakraborty

Dasgupta

et al. 2009

2009 Tenth International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware

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Abstract-With the growing popularity of social networking, traditional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Telecom operators have both started exploring new opportunities to boost their revenue streams. The efforts have facilitated consumers to stay connected to their favorite social networks, be it from an ISP portal or a mobile device. The use of Web 2.0 technologies and converged communication tools has further led to a rise in both user-generated content as well as contextual information (i.e. rich presence) about users -including their current location, availability, interests and moods. In this evolving landscape, social networking players need to innovate for value-centric usage models that increase customer stickiness, along with business models to monetize the social media. To this end, we present R-U-In? -an activityoriented social networking system for users to collaborate and participate in activities of mutual interest. Activities can be initiated and scheduled on-demand and be as ephemeral as the user interests themselves. R-U-In? leverages contextual modeling and reasoning techniques to enable "social search" based on real-time user interests and finds potential matches for the proposed activity. Further, it exploits next-generation presence and communication technologies to manage the entire activity lifecycle in real-time. Initial survey results, based on a prototype implementation of R-U-In?, attest to the promise of real-time activity-oriented social networking -both in terms of an effective collaboration tool for value-oriented social networking users and an enhanced end-user experience.

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MyNet: A Platform for Secure P2P Personal and Social Networking Services

Cited by 44 publications

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Termite: Emulation Testbed for Encounter Networks

Termite: Emulation Testbed for Encounter Networks

Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks

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