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Sociality and Self-Organisation in Next-Generation Distributed Environments
BOTEV, Jean
2011
 

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Keywords :
Sociality; Self-Organization; Peer-to-Peer Overlays; Distributed Virtual Environments; Socio-Technical Systems; Complex Dynamic Networks
Abstract :
[en] The proliferation of computationally powerful, interconnected devices entails a new generation of networked applications and social utilities characterized by a strong growth in scale and dynamics.<br />Distributed virtual environments constitute a privileged example, involving a high degree of interactivity as well as tightened constraints and requirements. As a response to these issues, this dissertation explores and substantiates sociality as a fundamental principle both in and for the design of such systems.<br />A specialized, dual peer-to-peer architecture is introduced, combining a highly-structured backbone overlay with a loosely-structured geometric client overlay synergistically complementing each other. To enable a global-scale, single-instanced environment, it is imperative to include as many client-side resources as possible and unburden the backbone. The focus of this dissertation therefore lies upon the latter, geometric overlay.<br />By taking an interdisciplinary perspective and leveraging different aspects of sociality, a series of self-organized approaches addressing major problem areas are proposed: a collaborative filtering mechanism for the handling of information overload created from the soaring amounts of users and objects; a confidentiality framework for the protection of sensitive data more likely exposed due to an increased interactivity; and two resource allocation schemes for fairly distributing surplus capacities in the face of critical regional surges.<br />Detailed evaluations show that these decentralized algorithms operate robustly and effectively, while yielding well-converging results in comparison to optimal, global-knowledge scenarios.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
BOTEV, Jean  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC)
Language :
English
Title :
Sociality and Self-Organisation in Next-Generation Distributed Environments
Defense date :
20 December 2011
Institution :
Unilu - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Degree :
Docteur en Informatique
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