Workshop on Stochasticity in Distributed Systems

Research Article

SLACER: randomness to cooperation in peer-to-peer networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651264,
        author={David Hales and Stefano Arteconi and Ozalp Babaoglu},
        title={SLACER: randomness to cooperation in peer-to-peer networks},
        proceedings={Workshop on Stochasticity in Distributed Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={STODIS},
        year={2006},
        month={7},
        keywords={Application software  Centralized control  Computer science  Degradation  Electronic mail  Humans  Intelligent networks  Network topology  Peer to peer computing  Social network services},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651264}
    }
    
  • David Hales
    Stefano Arteconi
    Ozalp Babaoglu
    Year: 2006
    SLACER: randomness to cooperation in peer-to-peer networks
    STODIS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651264
David Hales1,*, Stefano Arteconi1,*, Ozalp Babaoglu1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
*Contact email: hales@cs.unibo.it, arteconi@cs.unibo.it, babaoglu@cs.unibo.it

Abstract

Peer-to-peer applications can benefit from human friendship networks (e.g., e-mail contacts or instant message buddy lists). However these are not always available. We propose an algorithm, called SLACER that allows peer nodes to create their own friendship networks, through randomized interactions, producing an artificial social network (ASN) where nodes share high trust with their neighbors.