SocialDNS: A decentralized naming service for collaborative P2P VPNs

Author

Juste, P. Ierre St ; Wolinsky, David ; Lee, Kyungyong ; Boykin, P. Oscar ; Figueiredo, Renato J.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2010

fDate

9-12 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The ability to define domain names for resources in a collaborative virtual organization is usually reserved to network administrators through centralized domain name servers. We propose SocialDNS, a decentralized, naming service that gives individual collaborators the power to choose the domain names for their resources. Our approach is based on similar concepts of decentralized naming solutions available in local area networks. We enable short-names for resources by limiting the scope for uniqueness. We also employ a rank-based mechanism for dealing with name conflicts. We evaluate our design through graph level analysis to anticipate scope, bandwidth costs and latency. We also conducted experiments involving Amazon EC2 and PlanetLab to analyze the latencies in a real world environment.

Keywords

Internet; groupware; local area networks; naming services; peer-to-peer computing; virtual private networks; Amazon EC2; PlanetLab; SocialDNS; collaborative P2P VPN; collaborative virtual organization; decentralized naming service; graph level analysis; local area networks; peer-to-peer networks; rank-based mechanism; virtual private network; Blogs; Cryptography; Fires; Indexes; Peer to peer computing; Runtime; Virtual private networks; Naming; Rank; Social Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom), 2010 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

978-963-9995-24-6

Type

conf

Filename

5767038