SuperNova Social Network

A SuperNova Social Network is a Decentralized Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Network that is based on a super-peers network.

• AKA: SuperNova DOSN.
• Context:
  • It was first developed by Sharma & Datta (2012).
  • It can include the following DOSN's services:
    • data management by the users;
    • data transfer,
    • data encryption,
    • data loading and processing delay;
    • data caching,
    • social network relationship management.
• Example(s):
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Buddycloud,
  • DECENT DOSN,
  • Diaspora,
  • Friendica,
  • OpenSocial,
  • PeerSoN,
  • PrPl,
  • Vis-a-Vis.
• See: Centralized Online Social Network, Centralized Computing System, Decentralized Application (DApp), Decentralized Cloud System, Decentralized Clinical Trial, Decentralized Research, Decentralized Digital Currency, Software Freedom Law Center, Social Networking, GNU Affero General Public License, Ruby on Rails, Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, GNU General Public License, Eben Moglen.

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References

2017

• (Muller et al., 2017) ⇒ Andre Muller, Andre Ludwig, and Bogdan Franczyk (2017). "Data Security In Decentralized Cloud Systems – System Comparison, Requirements Analysis And Organizational Levels". In: SpringerOpen - Journal of Cloud Computing.
  • QUOTE: The results of the comparison are summarized in Fig. 1. The solutions of the investigated concepts of PeerSoN (Buchegger et al., 2009), Priv.io (Zhang and Mislove, 2013), Safebook (Cutillo et al., 2011), and SuperNova (Sharma & Datta, 2012) are based on a peer-to-peer approach. The concepts PrPl (Seong et al., 2010), SlopPy (Gambs & Lolive, 2012), and Vis-à-Vis (Shakimov et al., 2011) are based on distributed applications and on server solutions as well as cloud solutions that are self-managed by the user. As a common ground of these concepts, all parties are expected to run and manage their own cloud system. The eight already mentioned systems will now be explained shortly and examined with regard to their currently unsolved problems.

Figure 1: Results of the degree of the fulfillment of the system comparison characteristics.

2012

• (Sharma & Datta, 2012) ⇒ Rajesh Sharma, and Anwitaman Datta (2012, January). "SuperNova: Super-peers Based Architecture for Decentralized Online Social Networks". In: Proceedings of the 2012 fourth International Conference on communication systems and networks (COMSNETS 2012).
  • QUOTE: We propose a new architecture for realizing decentralized online social networks (DOSNs) which is a super-peers based network of volunteer agents (hence the name, SuperNova). We have arrived at such a super-peer based design guided by our past experiences in implementing and experimenting with the PeerSoN DOSN (Buchegger et al., 2009) and other decentralized social information systems (Datta, 2010) relying on other ‘flat’ architectures, as well as based on insights obtained from some theoretical works (Rzadca et al., 2010). The proposed SuperNova architecture allows the system to self-organize by leveraging on heterogeneity, which may arise due to various reasons including altruistic behavior of participants as well as various incentive mechanisms.

2010a

• (Datta, 2010) ⇒ Anwitaman Datta (2010). "SoJa: Collaborative Reference Management Using A Decentralized Social Information System". In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom, 2010).

2010b

• (Seong et al., 2010) ⇒ Seok-Won Seong, Jiwon Seo, Matthew Nasielski, Debangsu Sengupta, Sudheendra Hangal, Seng Keat Teh, Ruven Chu, Ben Dodson, and Monica S. Lam (2010, June). "PrPl: a decentralized social networking infrastructure". In: Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing & Services: Social Networks and Beyond (MCS 2010).

2009

• (Buchegger et al., 2009) ⇒ Sonja Buchegger, Doris Schioberg, Le-Hung Vu, and Anwitaman Datta (2009, March)."PeerSoN: P2P social networking: early experiences and insights". In: Proceedings of the Second ACM EuroSys Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS 2009).

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