Token-Based Accounting and Distributed Pricing to Introduce Market Mechanisms in a Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Scenario

Hausheer, David and Liebau, Nicolas C. and Mauthe, Andreas and Steinmetz, Ralf and Stiller, Burkhard (2003) Token-Based Accounting and Distributed Pricing to Introduce Market Mechanisms in a Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Scenario. In: P2P '03: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing :. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 200-201. ISBN 0-7695-2023-5

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.