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Social Networks and Peer to
Peer
As Presented by Jeremy Robinson
3/22/2007
What is a social network?
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A social network is a social structure of nodes
tied together by one or more specific types of
relations.
Examples:
Classmates.com
 Friendster
 Myspace
 Facebook
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SPROUT
Introduction
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Why do we need it?
P2P vulnerable to routing Denial of Service Attacks
 Misrouting attacks
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What is misrouting?
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Any failure by a node to forward a message to the
appropriate peer according to the correct routing
algorithm.
SPROUT
Introduction
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Malicious users
Masquerade as index owner of keys
 Can acquire several valid network identifiers to
control multiple nodes – Sybil attack.
 Can avoid this by sending messages only to
“trusted” nodes like people we know personally
perhaps in a real life social context.
 They propose to use existing social network services
to build P2P Networks to add highly trusted links at
little additional cost.
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SPROUT
Trust Model
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Big Assumption
Friends are not likely to be selfish or malicious.
 Also, friends of friends are also unlikely to be
malicious.
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Also assume that likelihood that B purposefully
misroutes A’s message is proportional to
distance between A’s owner and B’s owner.
SPROUT
Trust Function
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T ( A, B) is the trust A has in B
Probability f = 0.95 that friends will route
correctly, 0.90 that friends’ friends route
correctly, 0.85 that friends’ friends’ friends route
correctly and so on.
Probability r = 0.6 that any random node will
route correctly.
This means 40% of randoms are malicious
SPROUT
Path Rating
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Path trust rating, P, found by multiplying
separate node trust ratings for each node.
Source node = S, Destination = D
P = T(S,A) * T(S,B) * T(S,C) * T(S,D)
SPROUT
Social Path Routing Algorithm
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Build a DHT routing algorithm built on basic Chord
algorithm.
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Can be applied to other DHT designs like CAN or Pastry.
Like in Chord, user joins, gets randomly assigned a
network identifier. Establishes links to sequential
neighbors, but THEN add additional links to any
friends that are online.
Most popular instant messenger services keep user
aware of when friends enter or leave network.
SPROUT
Social Path Routing Algorithm
SPROUT
Optimization
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Lookahead
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Can see friends’ friends
Minimum Hop Distance MHD
May have friend at each sequential neighbor, gives
worst case routing O(n).
 Use MHD of 0.25 then next friend must be at least
a quarter away, or we use Chord.
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SPROUT
Simulations
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Used data from Club Nexus community website
at Stanford University.
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About 2200 users, on average each node had about 8
links.
Also ran experiments on 130,000 AOL Instant
Messenger users.
Used f = 0.95 and r = 0.6.
SPROUT VS. CHORD
Avg. Path Length
Avg. Reliability
Regular Chord
5.343
0.3080
Augmented
Chord
4.532
0.3649
SPROUT(1,0.5)
4.569
0.4661
Evaluating Lookahead and MHD
Lookahead
MHD
None
1 - level
2 - level
Length Rating Length Rating Length Rating
0
4.875 0.4068 5.101 0.4420 5.378 0.4421
0.125
4.805 0.4070 5.003 0.4464 5.258 0.4478
0.25
4.765 0.4068 4.872 0.4525 5.114 0.4551
0.5
4.656 0.4033 4.569 0.4661 4.757 0.4730
Performance of SPROUT and AC
Fig. 1. Performance of SPROUT and AC in different size Small World networks. The third
curve shows the relative performance of SPROUT with respect to AC, plotted on the righthand y-axis. Note that the x-axis is logscale.
SPROUT
Calculating Trust
SPROUT
Message Load
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Biggest problem for SPROUT
Uneven distribution. Load bigger than AC.
Can use as advantage,
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One highly connected large capacity node increases
reliability and decreases load on other nodes.
Searching Social Networks
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Only small bit pertains to P2P
P2P uses brute force to find things, they
propose a referral agent system.
Most P2P algorithms don’t fit social networks
because they cannot be partitioned by IP
address. Also P2P have fixed routing tables for
each node so network is not reconfigurable.
The End
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Questions??