Background/Related work

[dbosk]

~How to avoid tracking when placing data:~ No longer relevant

• [ ] ~Privacy-Preserving Access Control in Publicly Readable Storage Systems~
• [ ] ~Alpenhorn: Bootstrapping Secure Communication Without Leaking Metadata~
• [ ] ~Vuvuzela: Scalable Private Messaging Resistant to Traffic Analysis~

More general papers:

• [ ] Systematizing Decentralization and Privacy: Lessons from 15 Years of Research and Deployments

Tor

• [ ] Tor Hidden Services and Nymservers (remailers/mixers).
• [ ] Tor directories
• [ ] Trawling for Tor Hidden Services: Detection, Measurement, Deanonymization

Anonymous communication and storage:

• [ ] Freenet:

  Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing.

• [ ] FreeHaven:

  The Free Haven Project aims to deploy a system for distributed, anonymous, persistent data storage which is robust against attempts by powerful adversaries to find and destroy any stored data. This model of decentralized system has been classified as peer-to-peer by recent popular media.

FreeHaven also hosts the very useful Anonymity Bibliography.

• [ ] Invisible Internet Project (I2P):

  I2P is an anonymous overlay network - a network within a network. It is intended to protect communication from dragnet surveillance and monitoring by third parties such as ISPs.

and

Email: Integrated web mail interface, plugin for serverless email.
Web browsing: Anonymous websites, gateways to and from the public Internet.
Blogging and forums: Blogging and Syndie plugins.
Website hosting: Integrated anonymous web server.
Real-time chat: Instant messaging and IRC clients.
File sharing: ED2K and Gnutella clients, integrated BitTorrent client.
Decentralized file storage: Tahoe-LAFS distributed filesystem plugin.
More supported applications…

• [ ] GNUnet:

  GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.

There is this (seemingly) interesting thesis (note the location) to read on GNUnet:

Title	The GNUnet System
Publication Type	Thesis
Year of Publication	2017
Authors	Grothoff, C
Academic Department	Informatique
Degree	HDR
Number of Pages	181
Date Published	12/2017
University	Université de Rennes 1
City	Rennes
Thesis Type	Habilitation à diriger des recherches

• [ ] Katzenpost, specifics here.

Distributed Session Handoff

• [x] Sprinkler: A probabilistic dissemination protocol to provide fluid user interaction in multi-device ecosystems

Our first article on exchanging data among a single user's devices. It implies gossiping information on the user's activity, and building a model of her behavior (in this case, a Markov chain).

• [x] CASCADE : Reliable Distributed Session Handoff for Continuous Interaction across Devices

Our second article on the topic, this time leveraging a BitTorrent-like protocol to seed the user's session from all available devices.

File sharing

• [ ] Upspin
• [x] BitTorrent

  @misc{cohen2008bittorrent,
  title={The BitTorrent protocol specification},
  author={Cohen, Bram},
  year={2008},
  publisher={BITTORRENT}
  }

• [ ] Privacy-preserving P2P data sharing with OneSwarm

Modeling devices connection

Device usage field studies

• [x] Working Overtime: Patterns of Smartphone and PC Usage in the Day of an Information Worker (PerCom - 2009)

How are Microsoft employees using their professional computer and smartphone? This study summarizes an experiment performed on 18 persons by instrumenting their devices. They also compare what each device is primarily used for. Finally, they have cool timelines, I want the same.

• [x] Device Analyzer: Understanding smartphone usage (2013)

Huge data collection on Android devices, outlining user's mobility, devices' connectivity and other things. Data is public, might be useful.

Multi-devices interaction

• [x] A Diary Study on Combining Multiple Information Devices in Everyday Activities and Tasks (2015)

Finish field study on sequential and parallel usage of multiple devices, featuring diaries (over a week) and interviews of 14 participants.

• [x] Understanding and Comparing Smartphone and Tablet Use: Insights from a Large-Scale Diary Study (2006)

Google-led study of smartphone VS tablet usage, and what they are respectively used for. Features diaries from 176 participants over 11 days.

• [x] The new multi-screen world: Understanding cross-platform consumer behavior (2012 - Technical report)

Google-led study of multi-device interaction patterns.

Churn in Peer-to-Peer networks

• [x] Understanding Churn in Peer-to-Peer Networks (2006)

Kickass study of churn models in different production P2P systems (Gnutella, Kad, and BitTorrent)

• [x] Modeling Heterogeneous User Churn and Local Resilience of Unstructured P2P Networks (2006)

Another paper on the same topic, this one providing statistical models of users' behavior in the system.

• [ ] Flexible replica placement for optimized P2P backup on heterogeneous, unreliable machines

  our main conclusion is that it is possible to build an efficient and reliable backup system on highly unavailable machines, as our computers had just 13% average availability.

It's part of Nebulostore.

@article{skowron2016flexible,
  title={Flexible replica placement for optimized P2P backup on heterogeneous, unreliable machines},
  author={Skowron, Piotr and Rzadca, Krzysztof},
  journal={Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience},
  volume={28},
  number={7},
  pages={2166--2186},
  year={2016},
  publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}

[dbosk]

Redecentralize the Internet keeps track of supposedly decentralized services.

[Adrien-Luxey]

GNUnet's file sharing seems to be doing the same thing as we. I'm investigating.

[dbosk]

Upspin appears to want to solve exactly our sharing problem.

[dbosk]

LiLAC, BitTorrent, OneSwarm seem to be important to compare with?

[Adrien-Luxey]

Lilac if you want, to say that we don't provide Global Passive Adversary (GPA). But « Dependent link padding algorithms for low latency anonymity systems » (W. Wang, M. Motani, et V. Srinivasan) would be sufficient for this.

I don't know of OneSwarm, but I will check it.

I'll check the figures, though, I'm baking them for our system (I'm late...).