— In mobile ad-hoc peer-to-peer (M-P2P) networks, economic models become a necessity for enticing non-cooperative mobile peers to provide service. M-P2P users may issue queries w...
Abstract. Distributed anonymous communication networks like Tor depend on volunteers to donate their resources. However, the efforts of Tor volunteers have not grown as fast as th...
A rational P2P node may decide not to provide a particular resource or to provide it with degraded quality. If nodes are very likely to behave this way, or if the failure of an P2...
Andrew Roczniak, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik, Ross Kouh...
We address the freerider problem on P2P networks. We first propose a specific participation metric, which we call a peer’s EigenTrust score. We show that EigenTrust scores accu...
Sepandar D. Kamvar, Mario T. Schlosser, Hector Gar...
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are a class of networks characterized by lack of guaranteed connectivity, typically low frequency of encounters between DTN nodes and long propagatio...