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- surveyJuly 2023
Incentive Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Networks — A Systematic Literature Review
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 55, Issue 14sArticle No.: 308, Pages 1–69https://doi.org/10.1145/3578581Centralized networks inevitably exhibit single points of failure that malicious actors regularly target. Decentralized networks are more resilient if numerous participants contribute to the network’s functionality. Most decentralized networks employ ...
- research-articleDecember 2015
Coalitions improve performance in data swarming systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 23, Issue 6Pages 1790–1804https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2014.2345574We present an argument in favor of forming coalitions of peers in a data swarming system consisting of peers with heterogeneous upload capacities. In this paper, a coalition refers to a set of peers that explicitly cooperate with other peers inside the ...
- ArticleMay 2012
The Necessity for Strong Reciprocators in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
IPDPSW '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD ForumPages 609–616https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPSW.2012.76In civilian mobile ad hoc networks behaviour of network participants in accordance with the collective interest cannot be guaranteed. The cooperation in packet forwarding can emerge if the reciprocal tit-for-tat (TFT) principle is commonly used. This ...
- research-articleAugust 2010
Improving peer-to-peer file distribution: winner doesn't have to take all
APSys '10: Proceedings of the first ACM asia-pacific workshop on Workshop on systemsPages 55–60https://doi.org/10.1145/1851276.1851289Recent work on BitTorrent has shown that the choke/unchoke mechanism implements an auction where each peer tries to induce other peers into "unchoking" it by uploading more data than competing peers. Under such a scenario, fast peers tend to trade with ...
- ArticleMay 2009
Peer-assisted On-demand Video Streaming with Selfish Peers
NETWORKING '09: Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking ConferencePages 586–599https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01399-7_46Systems delivering stored video content using a peer-assisted approach are able to serve large numbers of concurrent requests by utilizing upload bandwidth from their clients to assist in delivery. In systems providing download service, BitTorrent-like ...
- research-articleAugust 2008
Bittorrent is an auction: analyzing and improving bittorrent's incentives
SIGCOMM '08: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communicationPages 243–254https://doi.org/10.1145/1402958.1402987Incentives play a crucial role in BitTorrent, motivating users to upload to others to achieve fast download times for all peers. Though long believed to be robust to strategic manipulation, recent work has empirically shown that BitTorrent does not ...
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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review: Volume 38 Issue 4 - articleSeptember 2007
Performance analysis and improvement for BitTorrent-like file sharing systems: Research Articles
In this paper, we present a simple mathematical model for studying the performance of the BitTorrent () file sharing system. We are especially interested in the distribution of peers in different states of the download job progress. With the model we ...
- articleJuly 2003
Viscous populations and their support for reciprocal cooperation
Viscous populations (those whose members are spatially distributed and have limited mobility and locality of interaction and mating) have been proposed to support the evolution of reciprocal cooperation among self-interested individuals. Here we present ...
- ArticleMarch 2002
Differences between the iterated prisoner's dilemma and the chicken game under noisy conditions
SAC '02: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computingPages 42–48https://doi.org/10.1145/508791.508802The prisoner's dilemma has evolved into a standard game for analyzing the success of cooperative strategies in repeated games. With the aim of investigating the behavior of strategies in some alternative games we analyzed the outcome of iterated games ...