Designing incentives for peer-to-peer systems

Peer-to-peer systems, networks of egalitarian nodes without a central authority, can achieve massive scalability and fault tolerance through the pooling together of individual resources. Unfortunately, most nodes represent self-interested, or rational, parties that will attempt to maximize their con...

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Other Authors: Wallach, Dan S.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1911/62147