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

fYear

2010

fDate

25-27 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/P2P.2010.5569977

Filename

5569977