Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A scalable content-addressable network
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Finding nearest neighbors in growth-restricted metrics
STOC '02 Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
A survey of techniques for fixed radius near neighbor searching.
A survey of techniques for fixed radius near neighbor searching.
Locality-sensitive hashing scheme based on p-stable distributions
SCG '04 Proceedings of the twentieth annual symposium on Computational geometry
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research
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We propose a new approach to building localized, context-driven social networking applications to allow people to communicate, interact, collaborate, and socialize in a truly innovative manner. In particular, the goal is to provide mechanisms to form communities of people who do not necessarily know each other, but are in close proximity to each other. In other words, it allows a user to communicate with unfamiliar people with whom the user does not know how to get in touch with. To achieve these goals we designed and implemented an infrastructure and an application using proximity based structures hashed over a set of clouds to distribute the user load effectively. Our infrastructure, called iCon, provides layers of APIs to separate concerns and support the key features of our approach. To evaluate this layered architecture we developed YaKit, an innovative social networking application. This locality based end-user application, which runs on workstations as well as mobile phones, allows to identify persons in close proximity and interact with them. The premise is that people are tied to the places and time periods of their life's experiences. Communicating in such a way is not only novel but also presents a wide range of capabilities and opportunities for smart web applications.