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TPDS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Free-Riding on BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems: Modeling Analysis and Improvement
BitTorrent has emerged as a very popular peer-to-peer file sharing system, which uses an embedded set of incentive mechanisms to encourage contribution and prevent free-riding. How...
Minglu Li, Jiadi Yu, Jie Wu
IPTPS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Study of Free-Riding Behavior in the Maze P2P File-Sharing System
Maze1 is a P2P file-sharing system with an active and large user base. It is developed, deployed and operated by an academic research team. As such, it offers ample opportunities ...
Mao Yang, Zheng Zhang, Xiaoming Li, Yafei Dai
ICDCSW
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
UBCA: Utility-Based Clustering Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are currently used in a variety of applications. File sharing applications and ad hoc networking have fueled the usage of these systems. P2P systems gen...
Brent Lagesse, Mohan Kumar
ICNP
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Delicate Tradeoffs in BitTorrent-like File Sharing Protocol Design
— The BitTorrent (BT) file sharing protocol is popular due to its scalability property and the incentive mechanism to reduce free-riding. However, in designing such P2P file sh...
Bin Fan, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui
PE
2006
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Analysis of resource transfers in peer-to-peer file sharing applications using fluid models
This paper proposes a stochastic fluid flow model to compute the transfer time distribution of resources in peer-to-peer file sharing applications. The amount of bytes transferred...
Rossano Gaeta, Marco Gribaudo, Daniele Manini, Mat...