TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dian, S. Moses 
AU  - Ramadoss, B. 
PY  - 2012
TI  - A Grade-Based Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Networks
JF  - American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 5
IS  - 3
DO  - 10.3844/ajeassp.2012.243.250
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajeassp.2012.243.250
AB  - Free-riding is a desperate and a constant menace to many P2P systems, to violate the cooperation among peers. This study proposes a grade-based approach, which expeditiously maintains fairness in the network by encouraging the high contributed peers and altogether wiping out the free-riders. The Network Contribution Ratio determines the contribution of users globally. Besides, the proposed grading algorithm uses a point-based incentive mechanism which provides credit points to the users with respect to their grade and the transfer of users between each grade is instituted.