A Reputation-Based Network Bandwidth Allocation Mechanism

No fair bandwidth allocation will damage the interests of the contribution node and cause its income not matching its contribution. That will damage the fairness of bandwidth allocation. In this paper, we research the problem of bandwidth allocation in a network swarm and proposed a reputation-based bandwidth resource allocation algorithm with punishment incentives. Finally, the experimental result shows that the algorithm can efficiently inhibit the free-rider. It can also improve bandwidth allocation fairness and the enthusiasm of the contribution node.