Enabling Security, Privacy and Availability of P2P Social Networks

Abstract

Today social medias like Online Social Networks(OSN) plays a important part of our life. Most of the people are using OSN as a day to day activity. Interacting directly with our friends and family members using online messaging and sharing information like pictures and videos never been easy as using Online social network. Main advantage of OSN are it is cheap and easy to use. Resent incidents in countries such as UK and Egypt shows that the power of social media. Because freedom of exchanging information it became a powerful tool. Most of the Online social networks are managed centrally .The amount data that those servers hold are extremely large. Therefore it is very vulnerable to privacy and security issues .OSN owners can do spy on users by doing large scale data mining. Also it is open to single point of failures and Denial of service (DOS) attacks. But in our real world we don t have any centralized managers to coordinated our social activities. if we can distribute the data and users it will be a solution for avoid above scenarios. In this study we introduce as decentralized peer to peer social network that has enables the privacy security and availability. Most of the issues that arise with centralized social network such as spying ,single point of failure or DOS attacks can be avoid using peer to peer social networks. Using the natural behavior of interaction of each other in groups and temporal patterns can be used to make the system more optimize. Also most interactions are done in geographically aware manner it can be also use as a advantage. Popular interaction can be done with this peer to peer social network like data sharing ,messaging ,comments etc.