Peer-to-Peer Content Sharing Based on Social Identities and Relationships

Author

Bellavista, Paolo ; Giannelli, Carlo ; Iannario, Luca ; Goix, Laurent-Walter ; Venezia, Claudio

Author_Institution

Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Volume

18

Issue

3

fYear

2014

fDate

May-June 2014

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

63

Abstract

Mass-market users exploit remote storage solutions and centralized online social network (OSN) services to share user-generated content. Although these solutions are widely adopted, they introduce several issues related to user content/metadata migration on server-side components managed by third-party providers. The authors propose a middleware solution to support social-driven peer-to-peer content sharing while preserving content ownership. A prototype demonstrates the proposal´s feasibility in terms of both performance results and easy integration with off-the-shelf devices using unmodified HTTP/UPnP protocols.

Keywords

content management; meta data; middleware; peer-to-peer computing; social networking (online); storage management; transport protocols; OSN services; centralized online social network services; content ownership; mass-market users; middleware solution; off-the-shelf devices; remote storage solutions; server-side components; social identities; social relationships; social-driven peer-to-peer content sharing; third-party providers; unmodified HTTP/UPnP protocols; user content/metadata migration; user-generated content; Content management; Corporate acquisitions; Facebook; Internet; Logic gates; Peer-to-peer computing; Remote monitoring; Social network services; Storage automation; data ownership; middleware; online social networking; social-driven content sharing; spontaneous networking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2013.127

Filename

6671563