Abstract Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a significant social phenomenon for
the distribution of information goods and may become an important alternative to traditional …

This paper describes a general approach to constructing cooperative services that span
multiple administrative domains. In such environments, protocols must tolerate both …

Peer-to-peer systems are typically designed around the assumption that all peers will
willingly contribute resources to a global pool. They thus suffer from freeloaders, that is …

RFC 4981: Survey of Research towards Robust Peer-to-Peer Networks: Search Methods [RFC
Home] [TEXT|PDF|HTML] [Tracker] [IPR] [Info page] INFORMATIONAL Network Working Group …

While it is well-known that BitTorrent is vulnerable to selfish behavior, this paper
demonstrates that even entire files can be downloaded without reciprocating at all in …

Peer-to-peer storage systems assume that their users consume resources in proportion to
their contribution. Unfortunately, users are unlikely to do this without some enforcement …

This paper presents Sharp, a framework for secure distributed resource management in an
Internet-scale computing infrastructure. The cornerstone of Sharp is a construct to represent …

Conventional peer-to-peer (P2P) networks do not provide service differentiation and
incentive for users. Therefore, users can easily obtain information without themselves …

Wireless grids, a new type of resource-sharing network, connect sensors, mobile phones,
and other edge devices with each other and with wired grids. Ad hoc distributed resource …

Digitized information and network have made an enormous impact on the music and movie
industries. Internet piracy is popular and has greatly threatened the companies in these …