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Computer Science > Social and Information Networks

Title:Peer-to-Peer based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

Authors:Newton Masinde, Kalman Graffi
(Submitted on 8 Jan 2020)

    Abstract: Online social networks, such as Facebook and twitter,
    are a growing phenomenon in today's world, with various platforms
    providing capabilities for individuals to collaborate through
    messaging and chatting as well as sharing of content such as
    videos and photos. Most, if not all, of these platforms are based
    on centralized computing systems, meaning that the control and
    management of the systems lies in the hand of one provider, which
    must be trusted to treat the data and communication traces
    securely. While users aim for privacy and data sovereignty, often
    the providers aim to monetize the data they store. Even,
    federated privately run social networks require a few enthusiasts
    that serve the community and have, through that, access to the
    data they manage. As a zero-trust alternative, peer-to-peer (P2P)
    technologies promise networks that are self organizing and
    secure-by-design, in which the final data sovereignty lies at the
    corresponding user. Such networks support end-to-end
    communication, uncompromising access control, anonymity and
    resilience against censorship and massive data leaks through
    misused trust. The goals of this survey are three-fold. Firstly,
    the survey elaborates the properties of P2P-based online social
    networks and defines the requirements for such (zero-trust)
    platforms. Secondly, it elaborates on the building blocks for P2P
    frameworks that allow the creation of such sophisticated and
    demanding applications, such as user/identity management,
    reliable data storage, secure communication, access control and
    general-purpose extensibility, features that are not addressed in
    other P2P surveys. As a third point, it gives an overview of
    proposed P2P-based online social network applications, frameworks
    and architectures. In specific, it explores the technical
    details, inter-dependencies and maturity of the available
    solutions.

Subjects: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Distributed,
          Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
Cite as:  arXiv:2001.02611 [cs.SI]
          (or arXiv:2001.02611v1 [cs.SI] for this version)

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From: Newton Masinde [view email]
[v1] Wed, 8 Jan 2020 16:47:08 UTC (274 KB)
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