Peer-assisted networks have recently emerged as an excellent tool for distributing video contents across the Internet. High peers’ participation and cooperation in peer-assisted networks can drastically reduce the bandwidth cost, increased scalability and ease of deployment. However, the main factor which limits effective distribution of resources in this network is free riding; a situation in which a peer consumes resources freely but refuses to service other peers. This paper presents a new peer-assisted streaming model (AyoPeer) using game theoretics with the aim of minimizing free riding.The interactions between peers are fashioned after a famous Yoruba game called “Ayo”. AyoPeer provides a reward and punishment mechanism that ensures the free-riders fail and cooperating peers succeeds with download. The experimental results revealed that AyoPeer mechanism outperform the existing scheme by ensuring fair distribution of resources, high cooperation among peers and resistance to free-riding peers.

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AyoPeer：改进的ayo游戏，用于最小化对等辅助网络中的搭便车

对等辅助网络最近已成为在Internet上分发视频内容的出色工具。较高的对等方在对等方辅助网络中的参与和合作可以大大降低带宽成本，增加可伸缩性并简化部署。但是，限制该网络中资源有效分配的主要因素是搭便车。对等方自由消耗资源但拒绝为其他对等方提供服务的情况。本文提出了一种新的基于游戏理论的对等辅助流模型（AyoPeer），目的是最大程度地减少搭便车。对等之间的交互是根据著名的约鲁巴语游戏“ Ayo”建立的。AyoPeer提供了一种奖惩机制，可确保搭便车者失败，并且合作伙伴可以成功下载。