To provide application-oriented network services, a variety of overlay networks are deployed
over physical IP networks. Since they share and compete for the same physical network …

In a peer to peer (P2P) network, users should cooperate (share resources) for effective
operation. To enforce cooperation, incentive mechanisms are employed, which provide …

In peer‐to‐peer (P2P) networks, contributions are made by peers voluntarily for the
autonomous character of peers. However, selfish peers may refuse to be cooperative when …

Peer-to-peer networks are widely used today. Due to this wide use, they are the target of
many attackers. The most mentionable of them is the Sybil attack. This is an attack in which it …

The peer-to-peer (P2P) system has prevailed on the Internet. The old client-server
architecture is gradually becoming unable to satisfy users' various requests and deal with …

Aiming at the micro and static aspects of methodology limitations in Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
network resources-sharing research and based on features like self-organization, dynamic …

Current reputation systems for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks suffer from high
overhead on reputation querying. Also, purely relying on a threshold to detect malicious …

In order to overcome the disadvantages of appearing the free-rider phenomenon and
security issues due to the characteristics of anonymity and voluntary contributions resources …

Many peer-to-peer (P2P) systems rely on cooperation among self-interested users. For
example, users of file-sharing systems who do not share their own resources cause long …

Alice, a peer in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network can evaluate the reputation of another peer,
Bob, either based on her own experiences (with Bob) or based on the evaluation (of Bob) by …