Title
Characterizing Collaboration in Social Network-enabled Routing.
Abstract
Connectivity and trust in social networks have been exploited to propose applications on top of these networks, including routing, Sybil defenses, and anonymous communication systems. In these networks, and for such applications, connectivity ensures good performance of applications while trust is assumed to always hold, so as collaboration and good behavior are always guaranteed. In this paper, we study the impact of differential behavior of users on performance in typical social network-enabled routing applications. We classify users into either collaborative or rational (probabilistically collaborative) and study the impact of this classification and the associated behavior of users on the performance of such applications, including random walk-based routing, shortest path based routing, breadth-first-search based routing, and Dijkstra routing. By experimenting with real-world social network traces, we make several interesting observations. First, we show that some of the existing social graphs have high routing costs, demonstrating poor structure that prevents their use in such applications. Second, we study the factors that make probabilistically collaborative nodes important for the performance of the routing protocol within the entire network and demonstrate that the importance of these nodes stems from their topological features rather than their percentage of all the nodes within the network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3837/tiis.2016.04.010
KSII TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social networks,collaboration,routing,random walks,adversarial behavior
Multipath routing,Link-state routing protocol,Dynamic Source Routing,Hierarchical routing,Policy-based routing,Static routing,Computer science,Computer network,Wireless Routing Protocol,Distributed computing,Routing protocol
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
4
1976-7277
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manar Mohaisen19728.83
Aziz Mohaisen234953.81