Title :
Scalability evaluation of a peer-to-peer market place based on micro payments
Author :
Ruffo, Giancarlo ; Schifanella, Rossano
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Informatica, Univ. di Torino, Italy
Abstract :
A fair peer-to-peer market place should protect intellectual properties as well as account peers that act as distributors of the source. FairPeers is a scheme in which some central authorities are necessary, with the drawback that when the number of transactions grows, these entities can represent single points of failure. This paper proposes a generic model to analytically evaluate such a market place and estimate its performance in terms of scalability w.r.t. the total number of printed coins and the overall transactions that can occur in the given peer-to-peer system.
Keywords :
copyright; electronic money; peer-to-peer computing; security of data; transaction processing; FairPeers; central authorities; intellectual property protection; micropayments; peer-to-peer market place; peer-to-peer system; printed coins; scalability evaluation; transactions; Bandwidth; Costs; Intellectual property; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Protection; Protocols; Scalability; Security; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems, 2005. HOT-P2P 2005. Second International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2417-6
DOI :
10.1109/HOT-P2P.2005.16
