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Decentralized social networking using named-data

Zeynalvand, L ; Sharif University of Technology | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19419-6_40
  3. Publisher: Springer Verlag , 2015
  4. Abstract:
  5. Online social networks (OSNs) can be considered as huge success. However, this success costs users their privacy and loosing ownership of their own data; Sometimes the operators of social networking sites, have some business incentives adverse to users’ expectations of privacy. These sort of privacy breaches have inspired research toward privacy- preserving alternatives for social networking in a decentralized fashion. Yet almost all alternatives lack proper feasibility and efficiency, which is because of a huge mismatch between aforementioned goal and today’s network’s means of achieving it. Current Internet architecture is showing signs of age. Among a variety of proposed directions for a new Internet architecture is Named Data Networking (NDN), focused on retrieving content by name, which names packets rather than endhosts. NDN characteristics greatly facilitate development of applications tailored for today’s needs. In this paper a decentralized architecture for social networking is proposed that provides strong privacy guarantees while preserving the main functionalities of OSNs, in a content- based paradigm. The simulation results show that not only it is feasible to have decentralized social networking over content centric networks, but also it is significantly more efficient from a global network point of view
  6. Keywords:
  7. Information centric networks ; Named data ; Privacy ; Social networking ; Data privacy ; Internet ; Network architecture ; Websites ; Content-centric networks ; Decentralization ; Decentralized architecture ; Information Centric Networks ; Named data networkings ; Named datum ; Online social networks (OSNs) ; Social networking sites ; Social networking (online)
  8. Source: Communications in Computer and Information Science, 16 June 2015 through 19 June 2015 ; Volume 522 , June , 2015 , Pages 421-430 ; 18650929 (ISSN) ; 9783319194189 (ISBN)
  9. URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-19419-6_40