Paper Info
Title
Economic incentive-based brokerage schemes for improving data availability in mobile-P2P networks
Abstract
In mobile ad hoc peer-to-peer (M-P2P) networks, data availability is typically low due to rampant free-riding, frequent network partitioning and mobile resource constraints. This work proposes the E-Broker system for improving data availability in M-P2P networks. The main contributions of E-Broker are threefold. First, it proposes the EIB (Economic Incentive-based Brokerage) scheme, which incentivizes relay peers to act as information brokers for performing value-added routing and replication in M-P2P networks, thereby effectively improving data availability. Second, it proposes the EIB+ (enhanced Economic Incentive-based Brokerage) scheme, which extends the EIB scheme by incorporating three different broker scoring strategies for providing additional incentives to brokers towards providing better service. Moreover, EIB+ facilitates load-sharing among the peers. Third, it experimentally determines the number of brokers, beyond which the mobile peers are better off without a broker-based architecture i.e., they can directly access data from the data-providing peers. Our performance evaluation indicates that the proposed schemes are indeed effective in improving query response times, data availability and query hop-counts at reasonable communication traffic cost in M-P2P networks as compared to a recent existing scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.comcom.2013.01.012
Computer Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Economic incentive schemes,Brokerage,Data availability,Mobile-P2P networks
Architecture,Data availability,Incentive,Computer science,Computer network,Relay
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
8
0140-3664
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
31
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nilesh Padhariya1213.37
Anirban Mondal238631.29
Sanjay Kumar Madria3892276.61
Masaru Kitsuregawa43188831.46