A Grade-Based Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Networks
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Abstract
Free-riding is a desperate and a constant menace to many P2P systems, to violate the cooperation among peers. This study proposes a grade-based approach, which expeditiously maintains fairness in the network by encouraging the high contributed peers and altogether wiping out the free-riders. The Network Contribution Ratio determines the contribution of users globally. Besides, the proposed grading algorithm uses a point-based incentive mechanism which provides credit points to the users with respect to their grade and the transfer of users between each grade is instituted.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2012.243.250
Copyright: © 2012 S. Moses Dian and B. Ramadoss. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Global Contribution (GC)
- Network Contribution Ratio (NCR)
- Credit Point (CP)
- Total Uploaded (TU)
- Total Downloaded (TD)