—An inherent problem to a cooperation incentive mechanism implemented into a dynamic system where peers may join or leave at any time is the whitewashing problem. Whitewashers ar...
Despite general awareness of the importance of keeping one's system secure, and widespread availability of consumer security technologies, actual investment in security remai...
— Incentive protocols play a crucial role to encourage cooperation among nodes in networking applications. The aim of this paper is to provide a general analytical framework to a...
In wireless multicast systems, cooperative multicast has been shown to be effective in dealing with heterogeneous channel conditions and improving the system performance. However,...
In surprisingly many computer science research projects, system outcomes may be influenced by computerized or human agents with different economic incentives. Such studies include...