MANSCI
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Firms that rely on functioning mission-critical equipment for their businesses cannot a¤ord signi…cant operational downtime due to system disruptions. To minimize the impact of...
JNW
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Abstract— Tree-based structure is widely used in peer-topeer streaming service and is the fundamental of many other structures, but it suffers a lot from the existence of free-ri...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
— In multi-hop wireless networks, the mobile nodes usually act as routers to relay packets generated from other nodes. However, selfish nodes do not cooperate but make use of the...
TPDS
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
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...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
In the last years, distributed coordinator-free systems, e.g., peerto-peer systems (P2P systems), have attracted much interest among researchers and practitioners. In these system...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...
IFIP
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
In multi-hop wireless networks, every node is expected to forward packets for the benefit of other nodes. Yet, if each node is its own authority, then it may selfishly deny packe...
ICNP
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous communication systems are vulnerable to free-riders, peers that use the system while providing little or no service to others and whose presence limit...
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Distributed message relaying is an important function of a peer-topeer system to discover service providers. Existing search protocols in unstructured peer-to-peer systems either ...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
In recent years, extensive studies of many interesting aspects of virtual community dynamics promoted a better understanding of this area. One of the most challenging problems fac...