Quantifying Disincentives in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, John Chung-I Chuang, Ion Gabriel Stoica · 2009
Cooperation is a central tenet of peer-to-peer systems. Without cooperation, users of a file-sharing system such as Gnutella suffer long download delays, if they are able to download at all [1]. Unfortunately, users have a natural disincentive