Towards an Effective Reputation Assessment Process in Peer-to-Peer Systems
The need for reputation assessment is particularly strong in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems because the peers' personal site autonomy is amplified by the inherent technological decentralization of the environment. However, the decentralization notion makes the problem of designing a peer-to-peer based reputation assessment substantially harder in P2P networks than in centralized settings.Existing reputation systems tackle the reputation assessment process in an ad-hoc manner. There is no systematic and coherent way to derive measures and analyze the current reputation systems. In this paper, we propose a reputation assessment process and use it to classify the existing reputation systems. Simulation experiments are conducted and focused on the different methods in selecting the recommendation sources and retrieving the recommendations. These two phases can contribute significantly to the overall performance due to communication cost and coverage.
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[1] K. A. et al., "P-Grid: a self-organizing structured p2p system,” ACM
SIGMOD Record, Vol. 32, 2003.
[2] A. Abdul-Rahman, A Framework for Decentralised Trust Reasoning,
PhD thesis, Dept. of Computing, University College London, July 2004.
[3] R. Arienghieri, E. Damiani, S. Vimercati, S. Paraboschi, and P. Samarati,
"Fuzzy techniques for trust and reputation management in anonymous
peer-to-peer systems,” JASIST, Vol. 57, No. 4, 2006, pp. 528–537.
[4] F. Azzedin and M. Maheswaran, "A trust brokering system and its
application to resource management in public-resource grids,” 2004
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS
2004), Apr. 2004.
[5] F. Azzedin, M. Maheswaran, and A. Mitra, "Trust brokering and its use
for resource matchmaking in public-resource grids,” Journal of Grid
Computing, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2006, pp. 247–263.
[6] R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval,
Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA, 1999.
[7] M. A. M. Gupta and M. Ahamad, "Trade-offs between reliability and
overheads in peer-to-peer reputation tracking,” Computer Networks,
Vol. 50, No. 4, 2006, pp. 501–522.
[8] Q. Gu, K. Bai, H. Wang, P. Liu, and C. Chu, "Modeling of pollution
in p2p file sharing systems,” (3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and
Networking Conference), Jan.
[9] D. Hughes, G. Coulson, and J. Walkerdine, "Free riding on gnutella
revisited: The bell tolls,” IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 6, No. 6,
2006.
[10] A. Jsang, R. Ismail, and C. Boyd, "A survey of trust and reputation
systems for online service provision,” (Decision Support Systems), 2006.
[11] S. Kamvar, M. Schlosser, and H. Garcia-Molina, "The eigentrust algorithm
for reputation management in p2p networks,” (12th International
World Wide Web Conference), May 2003.
[12] J. Liang, R. Kumar, Y. Xi, and K. Ross, "Pollution in p2p file sharing
systems,” (24th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and
Communications Societies), July 2005.
[13] P. Rodriguez, S. Tan, and C. Gkantsidis, "On the feasibility of commercial,
legal p2p content distribution,” ACM SIGCOMM Computer
Communication Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 75–78.
[14] S. Song, K. Hwang, R. Zhou, and Y. Kwok, "Trusted p2p transactions
with fuzzy reputation aggregation,” IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 9,
No. 9, 2006, pp. 24–34.
[15] iTrust: Working group on trust management in dynamic open systems,
"itrust,” http://www.itrust.uoc.gr, June 2002.
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