We consider problems of provisioning an excludable public good amongst n potential members of a peer-to-peer system who are able to communicate information about their private pre...
In this paper, a novel protocol for providing both client and server anonymity in peer-to-peer (P2P) based grids is presented. The protocol assumes individual nodes or users to be...
Rohit Gupta, Souvik Ray, Arun K. Somani, Zhao Zhan...
Prediction markets efficiently extract and aggregate the private information held by individuals about events and facts that can be publicly verified. However, facts such as the e...
When Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) is used in commercial environments, incentive mechanism should be employed to encourage cooperation among selfish mobile users. Key challen...
Abstract—Resource sharing on the Internet is becoming increasingly pervasive. Recently, there is growing interest in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer and grid, with effor...