Since the recently emerging mobile applications have posed significant demands not only
on high data rate but also on high caching and computing capabilities, the growth in …

The widespread diffusion of Online Social Networks has given unforeseen opportunities for
their users to share contents and mutually interact. However, current platforms offer …

Online Social Networks: Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter provides
new insights into the structural properties of personal online social networks and the …

While the Internet was conceived as a decentralized network, the most widely used web
applications today tend toward centralization. Control increasingly rests with centralized …

Despite their tremendous success, centrally controlled cloud-based Online Social Networks
(OSNs) have inherent issues related to user privacy and control. These issues have …

Distributed online social networks (DOSN) have been proposed as an alternative to
centralized Online Social Networks (OSN). In contrast to centralized OSN, DOSNs do not …

BACKGROUND Caching is a mechanism that accelerates data access from storage media
by managing a Subset of the data in a smaller, faster, and typically more expensive storage …

Abstract Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) do not rely on a central repository for
storing social data so that the users can keep control of their private data and do not depend …

Abstract Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSN) are a valid alternative to OSN based on
peer-to-peer communications. Without centralised data management, DOSN must provide …

Online Social Networks (OSNs) tipically exploit logically centralized infrastructure. The
centralized nature of OSNs has several drawbacks including scalability, privacy, and …