— Peer-peer networking has recently emerged as a new paradigm for building distributed networked applications. In this paper we develop simple mathematical models to explore and ...
Zihui Ge, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Sharad Jaiswal, Ja...
Abstract. We study the interaction between network effects and external incentives on file sharing behavior in Peerto-Peer (P2P) networks. Many current or envisioned P2P networks r...
BitTorrent has emerged as a very popular peer-to-peer file sharing system, which uses an embedded set of incentive mechanisms to encourage contribution and prevent free-riding. How...
Fairness is an important management issue for peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In this paper, we study the credit system of the P2P file sharing network eMule (http://www.emule-p...
Peer-to-peer systems have quickly become a popular way for file sharing and distribution. In this paper, we focus on the subsystem consisting of peers and their actions relative ...