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An architecture for a peer-to-peer mobile ad-hoc network offering distributed information provision is presented. Any user can volunteer to become an information server (a server-user). Volunteering implies devoting some of the user’s computational resources (storage, bandwidth, processing power) to serving information. An incentive scheme is proposed to encourage end-users to become server-users. The latter are rewarded proportionally to the number of end-user queries served. The proposed architecture is specified as a protocol suite taking security and privacy aspects into account. Details are given on an implementation completed on a WiFi ad-hoc network for the specific case of a distributed tourist information service.
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Castellà-Roca, J., Daza, V., Domingo-Ferrer, J., Manjón, J.A., Sebé, F., Viejo, A. (2007). An Incentive-Based System for Information Providers over Peer-to-Peer Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. In: Torra, V., Narukawa, Y., Yoshida, Y. (eds) Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence. MDAI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4617. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73729-2_36
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