Towards secure user-centric networking: Service-oriented and decentralized social networks
Author: I. Baumgart, F. Hartmann links:
Source: First International Workshop on Socio-Aware Networked Computing Systems at 5th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SaSo), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, October 2011
Mobile devices like laptops or smartphones are getting more and more powerful, but still these devices are mainly used to access services, which are provided by centralized servers in the Internet. We argue that the full potential of such mobile devices could be unfold if these devices would provide services like instant messaging or file transfer themselves in a peer-to-peer manner. In this paper, we introduce SODESSON, a middleware which enables easy and secure access to services that get provided by devices belonging to the user himself and his friends or colleagues. This novel communication paradigm of user-centric networking leads to more efficient and secure communication, since the indirection introduced by servers is eliminated. Given that we focus on user-centric communication, we are able to exploit the trust relationships and communication pattern of a social graph to reach these goals.