Incentive and rebuke based reputation model for peer to peer applications

  • Authors:
  • P. Agrawal;M. Chatterjee

  • Affiliations:
  • Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India;Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Peer-to-peer applications are very popular due to their decentralized and anonymous characteristics. Though this provides more opportunities for information exchange it still faces problems from malicious behavior. It is necessary to motivate peers to share their information and also to have some rigid rules for misbehaving peers. In this paper we propose a reputation model that provides incentives to the most trusted peers and reduces the effect of colluding peers and the peers behaving with dynamic personality. The model enforces peers to gradually increase or decrease their performance so that peers who suddenly drag their performance are viewed with an eye towards disturbing the system and hence their trust value is lowered. Peers are forced to provide correct evaluation by using credibility of the feedback sources. Collaborative nature of good peers helps to isolate misbehaving peers.