P2P soft security: On evolutionary dynamics of P2P incentive mechanism

Computer Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 241-249

  Wang, Yufeng ^a,c   Nakao, Akihiro ^b,c   Vasilakos, Athanasios V ^d   Ma, Jianhua ^e  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^e HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT); Incentive mechanism; P2P; Soft security

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY; FINITE POPULATION; INCENTIVE MECHANISM; INFORMATION SEEKING; NASH EQUILIBRIUM; NETWORK STRUCTURES; P2P; P2P STRUCTURE; P2P SYSTEM; SECURITY MECHANISM; SOCIAL CONTROL MECHANISMS; SOFT SECURITY; STOCHASTIC EVOLUTION; STRUCTURED P2P; TIME AVERAGES;

COSTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 78751650165     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2010.01.021     Document Type: Article

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