A game theoretic analysis of blacklisting in online data storage systems

Authors:
Bader Ali;Muthucumaru Maheswaran
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada;School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Venue:
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the problem of on-line data sharing on social networks from a game theoretic framework. We introduce blacklisting as trigger strategy to elicit cooperation among the players of a noncooperative sharing game. Using game theoretic analysis, we show the existence of an equilibrium in which the sharing conditions are honored when the involved players employ blacklisting strategies.