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SAC
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
T2D: a peer to peer trust management system based on disposition to trust
While the trust paradigm is essential to broadly extend the communication between the environment’s actors, the evaluation of trust becomes a challenge when confronted with init...
Rachid Saadi, Jean-Marc Pierson, Lionel Brunie
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
On the Market Power of Network Coding in P2P Content Distribution Systems
Abstract—Network coding is emerging as a promising alternative to traditional content distribution approaches in P2P networks. By allowing information mixture in peers, it simpli...
Xinyu Zhang, Baochun Li
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
MOBILITY
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A membership management protocol for mobile P2P networks
MANETs are self-organizing networks composed of mobile wireless nodes with often scarce resources. Distributed applications based on the P2P paradigm are by nature good candidates...
Mohamed Karim Sbai, Emna Salhi, Chadi Barakat
WIMOB
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Mechanism Design-Based Secure Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
—To avoid the single point of failure for the certificate authority (CA) in MANET, a decentralized solution is proposed where nodes are grouped into different clusters. Each clu...
Abderrezak Rachedi, Abderrahim Benslimane, Hadi Ot...