Paper Info
Title
DiDuSoNet: A P2P architecture for distributed Dunbar-based social networks
Abstract
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are becoming more and more popular on the Web. Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) are OSNs which do not exploit a central server for storing users data and enable users to have more control on their profile content, ensuring a higher level of privacy. In a DOSN there are some technical challenges to face. One of the most important challenges is the data availability problem when a user is offline. In this paper we propose DiDuSoNet, a novel P2P Distributed Online Social Network where users can exercise full access control on their data. Our system exploits trust relationships for providing a set of important social services, such as trustness, information diffusion, and data availability. In this paper we show how our system manages the problem of data availability by proposing a new P2P dynamic trusted storage approach. By following the Dunbar concept, our system stores the data of a user only on a restricted number of friends which have regular contacts with him/her. Differently from other approaches, nodes chosen to keep data replicas are not statically defined but dynamically change according to users churn. In according to our previous work, we use only two online profile replicas at time. By using real Facebook data traces we prove that our approach offers high availability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s12083-015-0366-7
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Distributed Online Social Networks,P2P,Data availability,Dunbar
World Wide Web,Architecture,Social network,Data availability,Computer science,Computer network,Exploit,Access control,High availability,Distributed computing,Social Welfare
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
6
1936-6442
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.64
27
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Barbara Guidi16916.30
tobias amft2150.64
Andrea De Salve35510.95
Kalman Graffi422828.17
Laura Ricci5708.10