Cryptographic treatment of private user profiles
FC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security
Exploring decentralization dimensions of social networking services: adversaries and availability
Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research
Mobile peer-to-peer approach for social computing services in distributed environment
Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Information and Communication Technology
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Online community platforms and multimedia content delivery are merging in recent years. Current platforms like Facebook and YouTube are client-server based which result in high administration costs for the provider. In contrast to that peer-to-peer systems offer scalability and low costs, but are limited in their functionality.In this paper we present a framework for peer-to-peer based multimedia online communities. We identified the key challenges for this new application of the peer-to-peer paradigm and built a plugin based, easily extendible and multi-functional framework. Further, we identified distributed linked lists as valuable data structure to implement the user profiles, friend lists, groups, photo albums and more. Our framework aims at providing the functionality of common online community platforms combined with the multimedia delivery capabilities of modern peer-to-peer systems, e.g. direct multimedia delivery and access to a distributed multimedia pool.