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INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
P2P Trading in Social Networks: The Value of Staying Connected
—The success of future P2P applications ultimately depends on whether users will contribute their bandwidth, CPU and storage resources to a larger community. In this paper, we pr...
Zhengye Liu, Hao Hu, Yong Liu, Keith W. Ross, Yao ...
P2P
2008
IEEE
102views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
14 years 5 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....
P2P
2008
IEEE
176views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
14 years 5 days ago
Towards an Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Live Streaming Systems
Incentive mechanisms are essential components of peer-topeer systems for file sharing such as BitTorrent, since they enforce peers to share their resources and to participate. Re...
Thomas Silverston, Olivier Fourmaux, Jon Crowcroft
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
120views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks
Lack of cooperation (free riding) is one of the key problems that confronts today’s P2P systems. What makes this problem particularly difficult is the unique set of challenges ...
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Ion Stoica, John Chuang
PE
2006
Springer
91views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Performance of peer-to-peer networks: Service capacity and role of resource sharing policies
In this paper we model and study the performance of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems in terms of their `service capacity'. We identify two regimes of interest: the tra...
Xiangying Yang, Gustavo de Veciana