A reputation-based anonymous communication strategy in overlay networks

In order to degrade the self participants in the peer-to-peer overlay networks, a rerouting-based anonymous communication strategy respect with reputation mechanism, which does not need an administrating node, is put forward in this paper. The degree of anonymity of the inactive participant is degraded by the value of reputation, and the active participants achieve better degree of anonymity in the system. The calculation result demonstrates that the system with reputation mechanism can guarantee the performance of normal members, and decline the selfish behavior caused by selfish members.