Title :
LifeSocial.KOM: A P2P-Based Platform for Secure Online Social Networks
Author :
Graffi, Kalman ; Gross, Christian ; Mukherjee, Patrick ; Kovacevic, Aleksandra ; Steinmetz, Ralf
Author_Institution :
Multimedia Commun. Lab. (KOM), Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
Online social networks with millions of users are very popular nowadays. They provide a platform for the users to present themselves and to interact with each other. In this paper, we present a totally distributed platform for social online networks based on the p2p paradigm, called LifeSocial.KOM. It provides the same functionality as common online social networks, while distributing the operational load on all participating nodes. LifeSocial.KOM is plugin-based and extendible, provides secure communication and user-based data access control and integrates a monitoring component which allows the users and operators to observe the quality of the distributed system.
Keywords :
authorisation; computer network security; information retrieval; peer-to-peer computing; social networking (online); software quality; LifeSocial.KOM; P2P-based platform; distributed system quality; monitoring component; participating nodes; plugin-based communication; secure communication; secure online social networks; user-based data access control; Distributed databases; Graphical user interfaces; Monitoring; Multimedia communication; Peer to peer computing; Security; Social network services;
Conference_Titel :
Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), 2010 IEEE Tenth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Delft
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7140-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7139-3
DOI :
10.1109/P2P.2010.5569977
