Abstract
The effectiveness of distributed Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications heavily relies on the cooperation of mobile users. Each user should receive a satisfying reward to compensate its resource consumption for cooperation. However, suitable incentive mechanisms that can meet the diverse requirements of users in dynamic and distributed P2P environments are still missing. Therefore in this paper, we propose a Bitcoin based incentive mechanism for distributed P2P applications that applies the basic idea of Bitcoin to incentivize users for cooperation. In this mechanism, users who help with a successful delivery get rewarded. Through a game theoretical analysis and evaluation study, we demonstrate the effectiveness and security strength of our proposed incentive mechanism.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (61472418, 61672415, U1636120), the National Defense Science and Technology Innovation Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CXJJ-16Z234) and the Science and Technology Innovation Service Capacity Building Project (PXM2017-014212-000002).
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He, Y., Li, H., Cheng, X., Liu, Y., Sun, L. (2017). A Bitcoin Based Incentive Mechanism for Distributed P2P Applications. In: Ma, L., Khreishah, A., Zhang, Y., Yan, M. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60033-8_40
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