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, NN
Start:	2005
End:	2008
Funding:	University of Zurich, IFI

Biography

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