Date of Award

2013

Publisher

North Dakota State University

Document Type

Master's Paper

Degree Awarded

Master of Science (MS)

Program

Computer Science

Department

Computer Science

College

Engineering

Faculty Advisor

Li, Juan

Description

We are living in a digital age in which data production has become so ubiquitous that the demand for sharing will increase as more aspects of life become digital. There are several ways we share data: via websites and special networks like peer to peer. Although peer to peer networks such as Bit Torrent allow users to upload and download files but do not work well when user is offline. In this paper, I propose a file replication technique with incentives in a centralized peer to peer network to automatically replicate most downloaded files to other peers on the network. The peer selection algorithm looks at the peer’s reputation which is basically an indication of high availability. To gain a high reputation a peer must allocate a part of its resources to the network; thus in return the peer gets to download the file from many peers simultaneously.

Rights

NDSU Policy 190.6.2

Rights Link

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf

Handle Identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/10365/23078

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