The digital rights management game in peer-to-peer streaming systems

Jin Zhang, Wei Lou

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Abstract

In this paper we model the digital rights management (DRM) for peer-to-peer streaming (P2PS) systems as a game. We construct the DRM game from both content service provider (CSP) and user's aspects, and propose a design of DRM policy based on homogeneous peers and homogeneous digital goods, which gets the maximal utility for the CSP as well as the criterion whether the DRM is fit for a P2PS system. Another sort of games in this paper consider how a peer deals with digital goods with regard to various situations in P2PS systems with DRM, together with the CSP's response to the peer's actions. We construct different games to avoid three notorious misbehaviors of peers: freeriding, jailbreaking and whitewashing. We take examples to show how these games work in P2PS systems with DRM and how equilibria are established in these games. Numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the strategies devised from these games.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM
Pages416-420
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Aug 2011
EventIEEE INFOCOM 2011 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 10 Apr 201115 Apr 2011

Conference

ConferenceIEEE INFOCOM 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period10/04/1115/04/11

Keywords

  • Digital rights management
  • game theory
  • peer-to-peer streaming systems

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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