Abstract
The natural selfish behavior of P2P system users, has given rise to the appearance of freeriding. These users download but don’t contribute to the system, leading to a degradation of the system, and the user experiences. It becomes mandatory to find proper mechanisms to incentive cooperation among users in these systems. In this paper we provide an incentive based coalitions to improve the system welfare and users experiences. A peer that participates in a coalition lends “bandwidth” to other peers of the coalition, in exchange for utility and consequently a far better experience. Taking concepts from game theory we provide a solid ground upon which we build our mechanism . Simulated experiments support the approach, showing how encouraging participation stops freeriding and therefore improve the system performance and the user experience.
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Belmonte, M.V., Díaz, M., Reyna, A. (2013). Improving File Sharing Experience with Incentive Based Coalitions. In: Filipe, J., Fred, A. (eds) Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 271. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29966-7_19
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