Challenges in the Decentralised Web - Gareth Tyson

Описание: Abstract: The Decentralised Web (DW) has recently seen a renewed momentum, with a number of DW platforms like Mastodon and PeerTube gaining increasing traction. These offer alternatives to traditional 'centralised' social networks like Twitter and YouTube by enabling the operation of web infrastructure and services without centralised ownership or control. They do, however, raise a number of key challenges related to performance, security and resilience. In this seminar, I will present a measurement study of the DW, and discuss our empirical exploration of some of the key challenges in this area. The presentation is based on a recent paper published in the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2019 (http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/fi....

Speaker Bio: Gareth Tyson is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, and a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. His research is in the broad area of Internet Data Science. He particularly focuses on the intersection between networking and web measurements, and has published extensively in venues such as WWW, IMC, ICWSM etc. His research has also received coverage from news outlets such as MIT Tech Review, Washington Post, Slashdot, BBC, The Times, Daily Mail, Wired, Science Daily, Ars Technica, The Independent, Business Insider and The Register.