An emerging paradigm in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is to explicitly consider incentives as part of the protocol design in order to promote good (or discourage bad) behavior. Howe...
Michael Piatek, Tomas Isdal, Arvind Krishnamurthy,...
In this paper, we propose a simple protocol for building heterogeneous unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The protocol consists of two parts--the joining process and the reb...
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...
Daniel R. Figueiredo, Jonathan K. Shapiro, Donald ...
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
The seamless and flexible interconnection of the existing and emerging protocols and networks is essential to the success of the new generation mobile applications and services. Fo...
Erkki Harjula, Jussi Ala-Kurikka, Douglas Howie, M...