Thomas Bocek

Summary
Student:	Thomas Bocek
Title:	A Peer-to-Peer Large-scale Collaboration Network
e-mail:	bocek@ifi.uzh.ch
Affiliation:	UniZH
Supervisor:	Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller
Committee:	Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller, Prof. Dr. Torsten Braun
Start:	2005
End:	2009
Funding:	University of Zurich, IFI

Biography

Thomas Bocek was a doctoral student at the Communication Systems Group CSG of the University of Zürich from 2005 to 2009. He received his diploma degree from the University of Zürich in computer science with concentration in information systems / business informatics. During his studies, he worked as a freelancer in software engineering projects. Thomas is mainly interested in communication systems and networks, especially focusing on Peer-to-Peer systems. Peer-to-Peer storage systems, Peer-to-Peer voting and incentives in Peer-to-Peer systems are of particular interest. Thomas has publish several workshop papers on these topics and his PhD topic has a strong focus on Peer-to-Peer systems.

PhD project description

PeerCollaboration: A Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Application for Large-scale Systems

The PeerCollaboration thesis presents new distributed mechanisms and algorithms for a scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant, P2P document collaboration system. In the PeerCollaboration thesis three key features are presented: (1) a new robust transitive tit-for-tat incentive mechanism to encourage peers to contribute resource and to discourage free-riders is presented; (2) a new efficient fast similarity search algorithm is presented to search for documents with misspelled text; (3) a new user-based voting mechanism is presented to maintain the quality of user-generated documents.

References (first author)

1. Thomas Bocek, Yehia El-khatib, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: Demonstration of the CompactPSH Incentive Scheme in a Peer-to-Peer Streaming Application. 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009), Demo Paper, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009.
2. Thomas Bocek, Yehia El-khatib, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: CompactPSH: An Efficient Transitive TFT Incentive Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Networks. 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009), IEEE Computer Society, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009.
3. Thomas Bocek, Dalibor Peric, Fabio Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: PeerVote: A Decentralized Voting Mechanism for P2P Collaboration Systems. 3rd ACM/IFIP International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2009), Springer, Twente, The Netherlands, July 2009.
4. Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller: PeerCollaboration. 3nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2009), Springer, Twente, The Netherlands, July 2009.
5. Thomas Bocek, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Dalibor Peric, Burkhard Stiller: Incentives for Voting-based Quality Control and Document Storage in P2P Collaboration Systems. 18th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2009), Groningen, The Netherlands, June 2009.
6. Thomas Bocek, Dalibor Peric, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: Towards a Decentralized Voting Mechanism for P2P Collaboration Systems. IFI Technical Report, No. ifi-2009.02, University of Zurich, Switzerland, March 2009.
7. Thomas Bocek, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Ela Hunt, Burkhard Stiller: Mobile P2P Fast Similarity Search. 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2009), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 2009.
8. Thomas Bocek, Wang Kun, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: PSH: A Private and Shared History-based Incentive Mechanism. 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security Resilient Networks and Services (AIMS), pages 1-25, Bremen, Germany, July 2008.
9. Thomas Bocek, Michael Shann, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: Game Theoretical Analysis of Incentives for Large-scale, Fully Decentralized Collaboration Networks. Fifth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (Hot-P2P 2008), IEEE Computer Society, pages 1-8, Miami, Florida, USA, April 2008.
10. Thomas Bocek, Ela Hunt, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: Fast Similarity Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks. 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008), Salvador, Brazil, April 2008.
11. Thomas Bocek, Peter Ming, Burkhard Stiller: Java-based Management of Biometric Data in a Distributed Internet Environment. Jazoon 07 / The International Conference on Java Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2007.
12. Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller: Peer-to-Peer Large-scale Collaborative Storage Networks. AIMS 2007 / Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (Student Paper), Oslo, Norway, June 2007.
13. Thomas Bocek, Ela Hunt, Burkhard Stiller: Fast Similarity Search in Large Dictionaries. No. ifi-2007.02, April 2007.
14. Thomas Bocek, David Hausheer, Reinhard Riedl, Burkhard Stiller: Introducing CPU Time as a Scarce Resource in P2P Systems to Achieve Fair Use in a Distributed DNS. 9th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

References (co-author)

1. Dalibor Peric, Thomas Bocek, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: The Design and Evaluation of a Distributed Reliable File System. Second International Workshop on Reliability, Availability, and Security (WRAS 2009), IEEE Computer Society, Hiroshima, Japan, December 2009. [PBHH+09b] Workshop
2. Dalibor Peric, Thomas Bocek, Fabio Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: Brief Announcement: The Design and Evaluation of a Distributed Reliable File System. 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009), Springer LNCS, Vol. 5873, pages 797-798, Lyon, France, November 2009.
3. Fabio Victora Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Cristian Morariu, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: LiveShift: Peer-to-peer Live Streaming with Distributed Time-Shifting. Eighth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P08), Demo Session, Aachen, Germany, September 2008.
4. Burkhard Stiller, Thomas Bocek, Peter Ming, Frank Eyermann, Jürgen Sauerland, Jan Angrabeit, Mark Völkl, Jan-Christian Tylka: Management of Biometric Data in a Distributed Internet Environment. 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2007), Munich, Germany, May 2007.

Additional information

External links

• TomP2P
• Publications of Thomas Bocek, as indexed by DBLP