Litter: A Lightweight Peer-to-Peer Microblogging Service

Author

Juste, Pierre St ; Wolinsky, David ; Boykin, P. Oscar ; Figueiredo, Renato J.

Author_Institution

Adv. Comput. & Inf. Syst. Lab., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

900

Lastpage

903

Abstract

Microblogging has become an important part of the social web evolution and is being utilized in many aspects such as advertising, political campaigns, and popular uprisings. Due to its heavy centralization, many have proposed decentralized alternatives based on a variety of models. This paper suggests a fully distributed approach built on top of existing peer-to-peer technologies. We demonstrate that, by exploiting the services of current peer-to-peer middleware along with the properties of the social graph, it is possible to create a simple, yet practical microblogging service that is impervious to many of the shortcomings of their centralized counterparts. The approach has been implemented as a software prototype that is readily available for download in order to test our design in real life environments.

Keywords

Web sites; middleware; peer-to-peer computing; software prototyping; Litter; advertising; lightweight peer-to-peer microblogging service; peer-to-peer middleware; peer-to-peer technologies; political campaign; popular uprising; real life environment; social Web evolution; social graph; software prototype; Conferences; IP networks; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Prototypes; Publishing; Virtual private networks; microblogging; peer-to-peer; social network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT) and 2011 IEEE Third Inernational Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1931-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.192

Filename

6113238