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NSDI
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Contract-Based Load Management in Federated Distributed Systems
This paper focuses on load management in looselycoupled federated distributed systems. We present a distributed mechanism for moving load between autonomous participants using bil...
Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Michael S...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Scalable mechanism design for the procurement of services with uncertain durations
In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study of Collusion Behavior in the Maze P2P File-Sharing System
Peer-to-peer networks often use incentive policies to encourage cooperation between nodes. Such systems are generally susceptible to collusion by groups of users in order to gain ...
Qiao Lian, Zheng Zhang, Mao Yang, Ben Y. Zhao, Yaf...
IPTPS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study of Free-Riding Behavior in the Maze P2P File-Sharing System
Maze1 is a P2P file-sharing system with an active and large user base. It is developed, deployed and operated by an academic research team. As such, it offers ample opportunities ...
Mao Yang, Zheng Zhang, Xiaoming Li, Yafei Dai
PE
2006
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Performance of peer-to-peer networks: Service capacity and role of resource sharing policies
In this paper we model and study the performance of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems in terms of their `service capacity'. We identify two regimes of interest: the tra...
Xiangying Yang, Gustavo de Veciana