Free-riders and fake files are two important problems in P2P file sharing systems. Previous works have always used incentive mechanisms and trust mechanisms to address them resp...
Distributed message relaying is an important function of a peer-topeer system to discover service providers. Existing search protocols in unstructured peer-to-peer systems either ...
In recent years the scientific journal market faces significant evolutions that may cause major changes in the way of publishing research results. In this connection, open access ...
— We propose and analyze a novel decentralized mechanism that motivates otherwise non-cooperative stations to participate as relays in cooperative ARQ protocol. Cooperation incen...
Igor Stanojev, Osvaldo Simeone, Umberto Spagnolini...
Cooperative peer-to-peer (p2p) applications are designed to share the resources of participating computers for the common good of all users. However, users do not necessarily have ...
Animesh Nandi, Tsuen-Wan Ngan, Atul Singh, Peter D...