Overcoming free-riding behavior in peer-to-peer systems

M Feldman, J Chuang - ACM sigecom exchanges, 2005 - dl.acm.org
While the fundamental premise of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems is that of voluntary resource
sharing among individual peers, there is an inherent tension between individual rationality …

Ordinal regression with multiple output cnn for age estimation

Z Niu, M Zhou, L Wang, X Gao… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2016 - openaccess.thecvf.com
To address the non-stationary property of aging patterns, age estimation can be cast as an
ordinal regression problem. However, the processes of extracting features and learning a …

A distributed ledger for supply chain physical distribution visibility

H Wu, Z Li, B King, Z Ben Miled, J Wassick, J Tazelaar - Information, 2017 - mdpi.com
Supply chains (SC) span many geographies, modes and industries and involve several
phases where data flows in both directions from suppliers, manufacturers, distributors …

A survey of bittorrent performance

RL Xia, JK Muppala - IEEE Communications surveys & tutorials, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its inception, BitTorrent has proved to be the most popular approach for sharing large
files using the peer-to-peer paradigm. BitTorrent introduced several innovative mechanisms …

An analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives

LN Bairavasundaram, GR Goodson… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
The reliability measures in today's disk drive-based storage systems focus predominantly on
protecting against complete disk failures. Previous disk reliability studies have analyzed …

BiToS: Enhancing BitTorrent for supporting streaming applications

A Vlavianos, M Iliofotou… - … IEEE INFOCOM 2006 …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
BitTorrent (BT) in the last years has been one of the most effective mechanisms for P2P
content distribution. Although BT was created for distribution of time insensitive content, in …

Free riding in BitTorrent is cheap

T Locher, P Moore, S Schmid, R Wattenhofer - 2006 - eprints.cs.univie.ac.at
While it is well-known that BitTorrent is vulnerable to selfish behavior, this paper
demonstrates that even entire files can be downloaded without reciprocating at all in …

Detecting binocular half-occlusions: Empirical comparisons of five approaches

G Egnal, RP Wildes - IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Binocular half-occlusion points are those that are visible in one of the two views provided by
a binocular imaging system. Due to their importance in binocular matching as well as …

Clustering and sharing incentives in bittorrent systems

A Legout, N Liogkas, E Kohler, L Zhang - ACM SIGMETRICS …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
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 behave in …

[PDF][PDF] Free-riding in BitTorrent Networks with the Large View Exploit.

M Sirivianos, JH Park, R Chen, X Yang - IPTPS, 2007 - Citeseer
This paper presents an experimental study on the behavior of BitTorrent networks when
selfish peers attempt to maintain high download rates without uploading. We modified a …