Collusive piracy prevention in P2P content delivery networks

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 970-983

  Lou, Xiaosong ^a   Hwang, Kai ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Content poisoning; Copyright protection; Network security; Peer to peer networks

Indexed keywords

BASIC IDEA; BITTORRENT; COLLUDERS; CONTENT AVAILABILITY; CONTENT DELIVERY; CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK; CONTENT POISONING; COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT; COPYRIGHT PROTECTION; DELIVERY COSTS; FREENET; GNUTELLA; IDENTITY BASED SIGNATURE; ONLINE PIRACY; P2P FILE SHARING; P2P NETWORK; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS; PIRACY PREVENTION; RESILIENT NETWORKS; SIMULATION RESULT;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COPYRIGHTS; INTERNET; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 67649859519     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2009.26     Document Type: Article

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