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Cross-Domain Discovery of Communication Peers. Identity Mapping and Discovery Services (IMaDS)
The upcoming WebRTC-based browser-to-browser communication services present
new challenges for user discovery in peer-to-peer mode. Even more so, if we
wish to enable different web communication services to interact. This paper
presents Identity Mapping and Discovery Service (IMaDS), a global, scalable,
service independent discovery service that enables users of web-based
peer-to-peer applications to discover other users whom to communicate with. It
also provides reachability and presence information. For that, user identities
need to be mapped to any compatible service identity as well as to a globally
unique, service-independent identity. This mapping and discovery process is
suitable for multiple identifier formats and personal identifying properties,
but it supports user-determined privacy options. IMaDS operates across
different service domains dynamically, using context information. Users and
devices have profiles containing context and other specific information that
can be discovered by a search engine. The search results reveal the user's
allocated globally unique identifier (GUID), which is then resolved to a list
of the user's service domains identities, using a DHT-based directory service.
Service-specific directories allow tracking of active endpoints, where users
are currently logged on and can be contacted.Comment: Accepted for publication at the 2017 European Conference on Networks
and Communications (EuCNC