HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 12 months ago
2011
Springer
A key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-dimensional datasets. A second challenge relates to design and execution of structured experim...
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 12 months ago
2011
Springer
The widespread adoption of automated fare collection (AFC) systems by public transport authorities around the world means that, increasingly, people carry and use passive sensors ...
PODC
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2011
ACM
This paper focuses on designing incentive mechanisms for overlay multicast systems. Existing proposals on the problem are no longer able to provide proper incentives when rational...
TWC
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Cooperative forwarding in wireless networks has shown to yield rate and diversity gains, but it incurs energy costs borne by the cooperating nodes. In this paper we consider an inc...
IJCAT
2007
14 years 6 days ago
2007
: The existence of peer-to-peer networks is due to benefits brought by decentralisation of control and distribution of resources. It is expected that the usage of such networks wi...
MM
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
Since entities participating in P2P networks are usually autonomous and therefore free to decide on their level of participation, mechanisms to resolve conflicts between individu...
ICDCSW
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
DSRT
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
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...