The impact of free-riding on peer-to-peer networks

Krishnan, Ramayya; Smith, Michael D.; Tang, Zhulei; Telang, Rahul

doi:10.1109/hicss.2004.1265472

Cited by 67 publications

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“…At time 150, 60% of free riders are detected successfully. 11 From the figure we can see that free riders start becoming detected after 50 time units. Therefore, if a free rider peer would like to avoid detection, it should change its neighbors every 50 time units, with the default parameter settings.…”

Section: Constantly Changing Neighborsmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…A peer's account is replicated by a group of peers, called the bank-set, in order to secure the Karma against tempering or being lost. Each of the above schemes that depends on micro payments has limitations when applied to many common P2P network architectures [11,21,36] due to the requirement of an infrastructure for accounting. In general, incentive schemes based on persistent identifiers are complicated by the anonymity of peers, by collections of widely dispersed peers, and by the ease with which peers can modify their online identity [11,21,36].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Counteracting free riding in Peer-to-Peer networks

2008

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The existence of a high degree of free riding is a serious threat to Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In this paper, we propose a distributed framework to reduce the adverse effects of free riding on P2P networks. Our solution primarily focuses on locating free riders and taking actions against them. We propose a framework in which each peer monitors its neighbors, decides if they are free riders, and takes appropriate actions. Unlike other proposals against free riding, our framework does not require any permanent identification of peers or security infrastructures for maintaining a global reputation system. Our simulation results show that the framework can reduce the effects of free riding and can therefore increase the performance of a P2P network.

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Section: Constantly Changing Neighborsmentioning

confidence: 86%

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confidence: 99%

Counteracting free riding in Peer-to-Peer networks

2008

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“…Not surprisingly, such systems are vulnerable to freeriders, i.e., peers that do not contribute their fair share [10]. Freeriding is a common behavior in large-scale systems deployed in the public domain [1].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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On tracking freeriders in gossip protocols

Guerraoui

Huguenin

Kermarrec

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing

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“…Several proposals based on such domain model have been introduced [24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Furthermore, other approaches to build effective incentives schemes are based on the Mechanism Design (MD) and Distributed Algorithmic Mechanism Design (DAMD) [31] concepts.…”

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FairPeers: Efficient Profit Sharing in Fair Peer-to-Peer Market Places

Ruffo

Schifanella

2007

J Netw Syst Manage

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The technical impact of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm on content distribution applications has been proved successful and efficient, when participants cooperation is achieved. Conversely, the business model is not clear: given a copyprotected object, its owner must be paid back for each transaction taking place from a provider to a receiver. The P2P paradigm assumes that a receiver turns into a provider, but it is questionable why she/he should provide properly the content, if the owner wants to be reimbursed. Actual systems introduce fairness, giving incentives (e.g., a differential service, like in BitTorrent) to altruistic peers, with the consequence that the owner of an object is economically damaged everyday. Hence, music and film industry sees P2P techniques as a hostile framework for distributing copy protected content for free: today's answer of the industry is investing in DRMbased solutions, that are not interoperable between different devices and players. In this paper, we present FairPeers, a P2P market framework, that joins a straightforward intellectual property protection and a fair economic model by maintaining the efficiency typical of P2P file sharing systems. The study is completed with an exhaustive security analysis, and the description of a prototype implementation that shows that the P2P paradigm is mature enough to present to the broadest community new revenue models, simply using available tools and state-of-the-art techniques.

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The impact of free-riding on peer-to-peer networks

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Cited by 67 publications

References 28 publications

Counteracting free riding in Peer-to-Peer networks

Counteracting free riding in Peer-to-Peer networks

On tracking freeriders in gossip protocols

FairPeers: Efficient Profit Sharing in Fair Peer-to-Peer Market Places

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