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P2P
2008
IEEE
102views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
14 years 11 days ago
Free-Riding, Fairness, and Firewalls in P2P File-Sharing
Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks depend on peers uploading data to each other. Some peers, called free-riders, will not upload data unless there is an incentive to do so. Algor...
Jacob Jan-David Mol, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J....
IWSOS
2009
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Revisiting P2P Content Sharing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Classical content sharing applications like BitTorrent are not designed to run over wireless networks. When adapting them to these constrained networks, two main problems arise. On...
Mohamed Karim Sbai, Chadi Barakat
ICNP
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 days 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
2007
Springer
140views Optimization» more  PE 2007»
13 years 5 months ago
Stochastic analysis of file-swarming systems
File swarming (or file sharing) is one of the most important applications in P2P networks. In this paper, we propose a stochastic framework to analyze a file swarming system und...
Minghong Lin, Bin Fan, John C. S. Lui, Dah-Ming Ch...
ISW
2009
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Adding Trust to P2P Distribution of Paid Content
While peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing is a powerful and cost-effective content distribution model, most paid-for digital-content providers (CPs) use direct download to deliver th...
Alex Sherman, Angelos Stavrou, Jason Nieh, Angelos...