PeerSoN: P2P social networking: early experiences and insights
By Sonja Buchegger, Doris Schiöberg, Le-Hung Vu, Anwitaman Datta. Workshop on Social Network Systems, 2009
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To address privacy concerns over Online Social Networks (OSNs), we propose a distributed, peer-to-peer approach coupled with encryption. Moreover, extending this distributed approach by direct data exchange between user devices removes the strict Internet-connectivity requirements of web-based OSNs. In order to verify the feasibility of this approach, we designed a two-tiered architecture and protocols that recreate the core features of OSNs in a decentralized way. This paper focuses on the description of the prototype built for the P2P infrastructure for social networks, as a first step without the encryption part, and shares early experiences from the prototype and insights gained since first outlining the challenges and possibilities of decentralized alternatives to OSNs.
Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications
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- Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective (2009, unknown): “For example, this is useful for developing test cases for evaluating the performance of new P2P-based OSNs, such as PeerSoN [6].”
- Towards robust and scalable peer-to-peer social networks (2012, background): “To allow end users to enjoy the functionalities of an OSN without giving up on their privacy, an alternative is to structure the OSN as a peer-to-peer (P2P) network [1, 3–6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15–17].”