On enhancing reputation management using Peer-to-Peer interaction history - Springer

摘要

Cooperation incentive mechanisms are an essential ingredient to the success of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems as they restraint the phenomenon of free-riding. We introduce an enhancement on reputation-based cooperation incentives used by the eDonkey2000 (ED2K) P2P file sharing network. This enhancement, called History-based Reputation System (HRS), can achieve better detection and control of free-riders, and by doing so enhances the scalability and fairness of the P2P system. HRS does not need the help of dedicated servers and/or central authorities, thus avoiding a single-point of failure. In addition, simulation results show that HRS achieves higher average download rate and smaller average download time for altruistic peers in a file sharing P2P system.