Abstract:Recent studies have shown that BitTorrent, one of the most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing systems, is confronted with two serious problems: robustness and fairness. In this paper, a partially decentralized trust management system for BitTorrent is presented to deal with the two problems. By extending and modifying the functionality of the Tracker in BitTorrent swarm, the extended Tracker serves as an authoritative trust computation agent (TCA) to calculate and disseminate global trust values for all peers, … Show more
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