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WDAG
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
It's on Me! The Benefit of Altruism in BAR Environments
Abstract. Cooperation, a necessity for any peer-to-peer (P2P) cooperative service, is often achieved by rewarding good behavior now with the promise of future benefits. However, in...
Edmund L. Wong, Joshua B. Leners, Lorenzo Alvisi
CN
2004
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13 years 10 months ago
Comparing economic incentives in peer-to-peer networks
Users who join a peer-to-peer network have, in general, suboptimal incentives to contribute to the network, because of the externalities that exist between them. The result is an ...
Panayotis Antoniadis, Costas Courcoubetis, Robin M...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Incentive analysis of approximately efficient allocation algorithms
We present a series of results providing evidence that the incentive problem with VCG-based mechanisms is not very severe. Our first result uses average-case analysis to show that ...
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Yagil Engel
NSDI
2008
14 years 1 months ago
One Hop Reputations for Peer to Peer File Sharing Workloads
An emerging paradigm in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is to explicitly consider incentives as part of the protocol design in order to promote good (or discourage bad) behavior. Howe...
Michael Piatek, Tomas Isdal, Arvind Krishnamurthy,...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
But who will monitor the monitor?
Consider a group of individuals in a strategic environment with moral hazard and adverse selection, and suppose that providing incentives for a given outcome requires a monitor to...
David M. Rahman
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Improving Deployability of Peer-Assisted CDN Platform with Incentive
Abstract—As a promising solution to manage the huge workload of large-scale VoD services, managed peer-assisted CDN systems, such as P4P [25] has attracted attention. Although th...
Tatsuya Mori, Noriaki Kamiyama, Shigeaki Harada, H...