Enforcing Fair Sharing of Peer-to-Peer Resources
Tsuen-Wan "Johnny" Ngan, Dan S. Wallach, and Peter Druschel
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Abstract.
Cooperative
peer-to-peer applications are designed to share the resources of each
computer in an overlay network for the common good of everyone.
However, users do not necessarily have an incentive to donate
resources to the system if they can get the system's resources for
free. This paper presents architectures for fair sharing of storage
resources that are robust against collusions among nodes. We show how
requiring nodes to publish auditable records of their usage can give
nodes economic incentives to report their usage truthfully, and we
present simulation results that show the communication overhead of
auditing is small and scales well to large networks.
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