scholarly journals LibreSocial: A peer‐to‐peer framework for online social networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalman Graffi ◽  
Newton Masinde
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Peer To Peer

scholarly journals Systematic Evaluation of LibreSocial—A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Online Social Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Newton Masinde ◽  
Liat Khitman ◽  
Iakov Dlikman ◽  
Kalman Graffi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
P2p Networks ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Benchmark Tests ◽  
Random Behavior ◽  
Overall Performance

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have been under investigation for several years now, with many novel mechanisms proposed as is shown by available articles. Much of the research focused on showing how the proposed mechanism improves system performance. In addition, several applications were proposed to harness the benefits of the P2P networks. Of these applications, online social networks (OSNs) raised much interest particularly because of the scalability and privacy concerns with centralized OSNs, hence several proposals are in existence. However, accompanying studies on the overall performance of the P2P network under the weight of the OSN applications outside simulations are very few, if any. In this paper, the aim is to undertake a systematic evaluation of the performance of a P2P framework for online social networks called LibreSocial. Benchmark tests are designed, taking into account the random behavior of users, effects of churn on system stability and effect of replication factor. We manage to run benchmark tests for up to 2000 nodes and show the performance against costs of the system in general. From the results it is evident that LibreSocial’s performance is capable of meeting the needs of users.

scholarly journals Data availability improvement in peer-to-peer online social networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-341
Author(s):  
Fariba Khazaei Koohpar ◽  
Afsaneh Fatemi ◽  
Fatemeh Raji
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Data Availability

Cooperation Among Members of Online Communities

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
M. L. Merani ◽  
M. Capetta ◽  
D. Saladino
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Video Streaming ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Critical Conditions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
P2p Video Streaming ◽  
P2p Overlay

Today some of the most popular and successful applications over the Internet are based on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) solutions. Online Social Networks (OSN) represent a stunning phenomenon too, involving communities of unprecedented size, whose members organize their relationships on the basis of social or professional friendship. This work deals with a P2P video streaming platform and focuses on the performance improvements that can be granted to those P2P nodes that are also members of a social network. The underpinning idea is that OSN friends (and friends of friends) might be more willing to help their mates than complete strangers in fetching the desired content within the P2P overlay. Hence, an approach is devised to guarantee that P2P users belonging to an OSN are guaranteed a better service when critical conditions build up, i.e., when bandwidth availability is scarce. Different help strategies are proposed, and their improvements are numerically assessed, showing that the help of direct friends, two-hops away friends and, in the limit, of the entire OSN community brings in considerable advantages. The obtained results demonstrate that the amount of delivered video increases and the delay notably decreases, for those privileged peers that leverage their OSN membership within the P2P overlay.

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