A Game Theoretic Analysis of Blacklisting in Online Data Storage Systems

Abstract—In this paper, we investigate the problem of online data sharing on social networks from a game theoretic framework. We introduce blacklisting as trigger strategy to elicit cooperation among the players of a noncooperative sharing game. Using game theoretic analysis, we show the existence of an equilibrium in which the sharing conditions are honored when the involved players employ blacklisting strategies.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: GLOBECOM
• Authors: Bader Ali, Muthucumaru Maheswaran
• Keywords: Communications, Game Theoretic Analysis, Game Theoretic Framework, GLOBECOM 2009, Noncooperative Sharing Game