Minaxi Gupta
Mostafa Ammar
ABSTRACT
We investigate the design of a reputation system for decentralized unstructured P2P networks like Gnutella. Having reliable reputation information about peers can form the basis of an incentive system and can guide peers in their decision making (e.g., who to download a file from). The reputation system uses objective criteria to track each peer's contribution in the system and allows peers to store their reputations locally. Reputation are computed using either of the two schemes, debit-credit reputation computation (DCRC) and credit-only reputation computation (CORC). Using a reputation computation agent (RCA), we design a public key based mechanism that periodically updates the peer reputations in a secure, light-weight, and partially distributed manner. We evaluate using simulations the performance tradeoffs inherent in the design of our system.
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- A reputation system for peer-to-peer networks
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