Increasing QoS in selfish overlay networks

Author

Rocha, Bruno Gusmão ; Almeida, Virgilio ; Guedes, Dorgival

Volume

10

Issue

3

fYear

2006

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

31

Abstract

A routing overlay network is an application-layer overlay on the existing Internet routing substrate that allows an alternative routing service. Recent studies have suggested that such networks might contain selfish nodes, which develop their strategies by considering only their own objectives. Extremely selfish nodes, called free-riders, might even refuse to share their resources with the network, thus making overlay service unavailable to the nodes that depend on them. The authors use a game-theoretic approach to evaluate the selfish-node mechanism and increase quality of service (QoS) by detecting and excluding free-riders

Keywords

Internet; quality of service; telecommunication network routing; Internet routing; QoS; game-theoretic approach; overlay network routing; quality of service; selfish-node mechanism; Algorithm design and analysis; Delay; Distributed algorithms; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Peer to peer computing; Quality of service; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services; Overlay networks; QoS; free-riders; quality of service; reliability; reputation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2006.54

Filename

1631975