Method of Social Network Service based media contents sharing by Modified URL shortening

Today, Social Network Services (SNS) has become a part of our life. People can easily publish their own media contents or share ready-made media contents. However, traditional media content sharing is based on the centralized server system. People living in countryside which is far from server farm branch for those services always need to access overseas server to view media contents. To overcome this problem, this paper presents a method for media content sharing on SNS with Modified URL shortening. From HTML5 standard and Web application technologies, we can make web browser work as web server. It has a form of browser extension like Google Chrome Extensions. In addition, friend relationship in SNS means geographical closeness in many cases so it can be used as closer source of media contents than original SNS or media service server. To evaluate this new approach, we simulate the idea with real internet topology and virtual social network structure. From this simulation, we can check the possibility of our suggestion indirectly.

I. Introduction

Today Social Network Services (SNS) like Twitter and Facebook have become a part of our life. People can easily produce their own media contents and publish them through their SNS. Moreover, they share lots of ready-made media contents with their SNS friends. On average, in Facebook, more than 250 million photos are uploaded and shared per day [1]. However, traditional media content sharing is based on centralized server system even though the system uses cloud. For those living in countryside which is far from server farm branch for those services always need to access overseas server to view media contents. That is why users who do not live in United States sometimes have inconvenience experience in watching YouTube videos because of buffering or slow loading.