Providing incentive to peer-to-peer applications
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wallach, Dan S. | |
| dc.creator | Ngan, Tsuen-Wan (Johnny) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-07-25T01:38:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-07-25T01:38:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Cooperative peer-to-peer applications are designed to share the resources of participating computers for the common good of ail users. However, users do not necessarily have an incentive to donate resources to the system if they can use the system's resources for free. As commonly observed in deployed applications, this situation adversely affects the applications' performance and sometimes even their availability and usability. While traditional resource management is handled by a centralized enforcement entity, adopting similar solution raises new concerns for distributed peer-to-peer systems. This dissertation proposes to solve the incentive problem in peer-to-peer applications by designing fair sharing policies and enforcing these policies in a distributed manner. The feasibility and practicability of this approach is demonstrated through numerous applications, namely archival storage systems, streaming systems, content distribution systems, and anonymous communication systems. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.callno | THESIS COMP.SCI. 2009 NGAN | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ngan, Tsuen-Wan (Johnny). "Providing incentive to peer-to-peer applications." (2009) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/61793">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/61793</a>. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/61793 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. | |
| dc.subject | Computer science | |
| dc.subject | Applied sciences | |
| dc.title | Providing incentive to peer-to-peer applications | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | Text | |
| thesis.degree.department | Computer Science | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Engineering | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Rice University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |
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