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ICMCS
2007
IEEE
128views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2007»
16 years 5 days ago
P2P Video Live Streaming with MDC: Providing Incentives for Redistribution
In this paper, we consider applying multiple description coding in data-driven P2P live streaming networks to provide incentives for redistribution. In our system, a video is enco...
Zhengye Liu, Yanming Shen, Shivendra S. Panwar, Ke...
ACMICEC
2008
ACM
191views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Why share in peer-to-peer networks?
Prior theory and empirical work emphasize the enormous free-riding problem facing peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing networks. Nonetheless, many P2P networks thrive. We explore two possib...
Lian Jian, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
CORR
2006
Springer
119views Education» more  CORR 2006»
15 years 5 months ago
Clustering and Sharing Incentives in BitTorrent Systems
Peer-to-peer protocols play an increasingly instrumental role in Internet content distribution. It is therefore important to gain a complete understanding of how these protocols b...
Arnaud Legout, Nikitas Liogkas, Eddie Kohler, Lixi...
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
106views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
On decentralized incentive compatible mechanisms
Algorithmic Mechanism Design focuses on Dominant Strategy Implementations. The main positive results are the celebrated Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanisms and computationally ...
Ahuva Mu'alem
IPTPS
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Enforcing Fair Sharing of Peer-to-Peer Resources
Cooperative peer-to-peer applications are designed to share the resources of each computer in an overlay network for the common good of everyone. However, users do not necessarily...
Tsuen-Wan Ngan, Dan S. Wallach, Peter Druschel