Title
SONETOR: A social network traffic generator
Abstract
The Online Social Networks (OSN) have become an important trend in current networks. Due to the susceptible nature of the private data available in OSN, the acquisition of data sets is not an easy task. In this paper and based on the state of the art of measurement studies, we present SONETOR, a synthetic social network traffic generator, characterized by ease of use and flexibility. SONETOR represents current social network behavior such as user publishing and consuming content, users sharing and commenting on information with their friends. We also proceed to study the impact of OSN in the network traffic with SONETOR. In particular, our social network traffic generator allows capturing the effect of the flash-crowd phenomenon. SONETOR is an open-source and multi-platform tool freely available. The generated traces can be widely distributed without restrictions and they are still privacy compliant.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICC.2014.6883902
Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
data acquisition,data privacy,public domain software,social networking (online),OSN,SONETOR,data set acquisition,flash-crowd phenomenon,multiplatform tool,online social networks,open-source tool,privacy compliant,private data,social network behavior,synthetic social network traffic generator
Traffic generation model,Social network,Computer science,Computer security,Usability,Computer network,Publishing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
1
0.37
References 
Authors
18
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
César Bernardini1643.30
Thomas Silverston214314.14
Olivier Festor366585.40