Title :
Token-based accounting and distributed pricing to introduce market mechanisms in a peer-to-peer file sharing scenario
Author :
Hausheer, David ; Liebau, Nicolas C. ; Mauthe, Andreas ; Steinmetz, Ralf ; Stiller, Burkhard
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. & Networks Lab., ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
We present a token-based accounting mechanism that alleviates the free riding problem in P2P networks. The approach is complemented by distributed pricing as a flexible and viable scheme to incite users to share valuable content and to efficiently balance requests among all peers based on economic decisions.
Keywords :
accounting; cryptography; distributed processing; electronic data interchange; marketing; pricing; P2P networks; charging; distributed pricing; economic decisions; free riding problem; market mechanisms; peer-to-peer file sharing; token-based accounting; Computer networks; Information systems; Intelligent networks; Intrusion detection; Laboratories; Military computing; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Peer to peer computing; Pricing;
Conference_Titel :
Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2003. (P2P 2003). Proceedings. Third International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2023-5
DOI :
10.1109/PTP.2003.1231523
