ARA: A Robust Audit to Prevent Free-Riding in P2P Networks

  • Authors:
  • MyungJoo Ham;Gul Agha

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois as Urbana-Champaign;University of Illinois as Urbana-Champaign

  • Venue:
  • P2P '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A number of solutions have been proposed to address the free-riding problem in peer-to-peer file sharing systems. The solutions are either imperfect 驴 they allow some users to cheat the system with malicious behavior, or expensive 驴 they require human intervention, require servers, or incur high mental transaction costs. We propose a method to address these weaknesses. Specifically, we introduce a utility function to capture contributions made by a user and an auditing scheme to ensure the integrity of a utility function驴s values. Our method enables us to reduce cheating by a malicious peer: we show that our approach can efficiently detect malicious peers with a probability over 98%