Performance and incentive schemes for peer-to-peer systems
Wei-Cherng Liao · University of Southern California Digital Library · 2012
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems provide a powerful infra-structure for large scale distributed systems, such as file sharing and content distribution. The performance of peer-to-peer systems depends on the level of cooperation of the system's participants. While most existing peer-to-peer architectures have assumed that users are generally cooperative, there is great evidence from widely deployed systems suggesting the opposite. To date, many schemes have been proposed to alleviate this problem.