Autonomic Peer-to-Peer Systems: Incentive and Security Issues

With voluntary users participating in an autonomic manner, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have been proliferating in an unprecedented pace. Indeed, it is widely known that P2P traffic now constitutes over 60% of total Internet traffic. P2P systems are now used for file sharing, media streaming, and various other social networking applications. Furthermore, P2P systems are also extending their reach to the wireless realm. However, there are still two major system aspects that pose challenges to P2P systems’ designers and users: incentives and security. First and foremost, a P2P system, by its nature, is viable only if users contribute their resources to the community. Obviously, uniform and global altruistic behaviors cannot be expected for all users.

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