Paper Info
Title
VENETA: Serverless Friend-of-Friend Detection in Mobile Social Networking
Abstract
Recently, mobile social software has become an active area of research and development. A multitude of systems have been proposed over the past years that try to follow the success of their Internet bound equivalents. Many mobile solutions try to augment the functionality of existing platforms with location awareness. The price for mobility, however, is typically either the lack of the popular friendship exploration features or the costs involved to access a central server required for this functionality. In this paper, we try to address this issue by introducing a decentralized method that is able to explore the social neighborhood of a user by detecting friends of friends. Rather than only exploiting information about the users of the system, the method relies on real friends, and adequately addresses the arising privacy issues. Moreover, we present VENETA, a mobile social networking platform which, among other features, implements our novel friend of friend detection algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/WiMob.2008.52
WiMob
Keywords
Field
DocType
real friend,social neighborhood,mobile social networking platform,decentralized method,active area,mobile solution,mobile social networking,serverless friend-of-friend detection,novel friend,mobile social software,internet bound equivalent,friend detection algorithm,security,internet,indexing terms,mobile computing,social networking,servers,friend of friend,social network,protocols,mobile,privacy,cryptography,decentralized,mobile communication
Mobile computing,Internet privacy,Friend of a friend,World Wide Web,Social network,Computer science,Social software,Server,Computer network,Location awareness,Mobile telephony,The Internet
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2160-4886
61
2.27
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco von Arb1612.27
Matthias Bader2753.26
Michael Kuhn316611.32
Roger Wattenhofer4137767.13