Toronto Networking Seminar


Organized by Department of Computer Science and
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto







Reconciliation of Social 
Networking and P2P Technology





Mehdi Mani


Institut Telecom

France 


 




Friday, October 9, 3pm

Location: BA 1210 



Abstract:




  Advanced features of 
  social networking such as content recommendation and community based 
  environment enhance people's communications and access to the information. 
  Along with the wave of web 2.0, plenty of social networking applications are 
  popped out in the internet. Today, Facebook with around 300 millions users is 
  the most visited website per day in the internet. On the other hand, P2P 
  technologies have been very popular during last decade and accounted around 
  20% of the internet traffic.

  

  Each of these two technologies can boost the performance by integrating the 
  other one. From one side, P2P technology can help a social network to get rid 
  of a central management system and be extended to other use cases. For 
  instance, P2P technology can enable customised social networking services in 
  the local areas such as conferences, expositions, meetings, stadiums and 
  galleries where internet access is challenged.

  

  Form the other side, P2P technology can benefit from the relationship and 
  confidence that exist in a social network. Content dissemination and lookup in 
  a P2P network can be significantly improved if the anonymous peers are 
  replaced by the friends in a social network. In this talk we explore the two 
  aspects of the reconciliation of these two network paradigm and discuss the 
  research directions in this field.



Bio:



Mehdi Mani 
received his Ph.D. degree from the  University of Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) 
in Paris-France in 2008. He is currently serving as a research scientist in the 
Network and Service  Architecture Lab., wireless multimedia and mobile 
services department at the Institut TELECOM SudParis. His research interests 
encompass P2P social  networking, spontaneous social networking, community 
based computing, mobile 

community networks, P2P communication services, overlay networks, distributed 
algorithms, GRID and cloud computing. He is leading ITEA2 ExpeShare european 
project in the Institut Telecom SudParis and is the

head  of the SCOPE platform for P2P social networking. He is currently an

invited scholar visitor at Universit of McGill, department of CS.

 





Host of Talk:



  Shahrokh Valaee (valaee@comm.utoronto.ca)