Abstract
There are two problems, unfair and too strict, with the utility function of the proposed incentive mechanisms for restraining the free-riding in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. This paper is devoted to establish a new fair utility function to solve those problems. We absorb both the absolute contribution value and the physical performance of peers in our utility function and the absolute contribution value is divided into supply value and profit value. Besides, we take the time the user is in the system as a factor of a peer’s utility. The mathematical modeling, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), is used in this paper to construct the function. The simulations compare the fair utility function with the proposed three functions and the results verify that this function is effective to solve those two problems.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Stephanos, A., Diomidis, S.: A Survey of Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Technologies. ACM Computing Surveys 36(4), 335–371 (2004)
Adar, E., Huberman, B.: Free Riding on Gnutella. First Monday 5(10), 134–139 (2000)
Karakaya, M., Korpeouglu, I., Ulusoy, O.: A distributed and measurement based framework against free riding in Peer-to-Peer networks. In: 4th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing Zurich, pp. 276–277 (2004)
Yijiao, Y., Hai, J.: A Survey on Overcoming Free Riding in Peer-to-Peer Networks. Chinese Journal of Computers 31(1), 1–15 (2008)
Ramaswamy, L., Ling, L.: Free Riding: A New Challenge to Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems. In: 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36 2003), pp. 220–229. IEEE Computer Society, Big Island (2003)
Anceaume, E., Gradinariu, M., Ravoajia, A.: Incentive for P2P fair resource sharing. In: 5th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Konstanz, pp. 253–260 (2005)
Ahsan, H., John, C.: An Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming. In: International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Montreal, pp. 171–180 (2004)
Ma, R.T.B., Lee, S.C.M., Lui, J.C.S.: A Game Theoretic Approach to Provide Incentive and Service Differentiation in P2P Networks. In: ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2004, New York, pp. 189–198 (2004)
Figueiredo, D., Shapiro, J., Towsley, D.: Incentives to Promote Availability in Peer-to-Peer Anonymity Systems. In: 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2005), pp. 110–121. IEEE Computer Society, Boston (2005)
Saaty, T.L.: The Analytic Hierarchy Process. McGraw Hill Company, New York (1980)
Yuhua, L., Chun, Y., Liansheng, T., Shaohua, T.: A Generalized B-A Model for the Recognition of Intermediate Vertex Effect. Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems (DCDIS), Series B. 14(S7), 23-27 (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Liu, Y., Yang, C., Xu, K., Chen, H. (2008). A Fair Utility Function for Incentive Mechanism against Free-Riding in Peer-to-Peer Networks. In: Balandin, S., Moltchanov, D., Koucheryavy, Y. (eds) Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking. NEW2AN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85500-2_20
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85500-2_20
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-85499-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-85500-2
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)