Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are envisioned to provide us with numerous interesting services in the near future. One of the most promising applications is the dissemination ...
Suk-Bok Lee, Gabriel Pan, Joon-Sang Park, Mario Ge...
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
Abstract— In this paper, we propose an incentive system to stimulate the nodes’ cooperation in multi-hop wireless networks. Reducing the number and the size of the payment rece...
Content delivery providers can improve their service scalability and offload their servers by making use of content transfers among their clients. To provide peers with incentive t...
In this paper we augment DLT (Divisible Load Theory) with incentives such that it is beneficial for processors to report their true processing capacity and compute their assignme...