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
We here present and evaluate relative accounting, an autonomous accounting scheme that provides accurate results even when the parties (consumer and provider) do not trust each ot...
Currently, there is an increasing tendency to migrate the management of communications and information systems onto the Web. This is making many traditional service support models ...
Martin Serrano, Sven van der Meer, John Strassner,...
This paper presents a design and analysis of scheduling techniques to cope with the inherent unreliability and instability of worker nodes in large-scale donation-based distribute...
Jason D. Sonnek, Mukesh Nathan, Abhishek Chandra, ...
—Reputation mechanisms are essential for online transactions, where the parties have little prior experience with one another. This is especially true when transactions result in...