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Third International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'03)
Link?ping, Sweden
September 01-September 03
ISBN: 0-7695-2023-5
David Hausheer, ETH Zurich
Nicolas C. Liebau, Darmstadt University of Technology
Andreas Mauthe, Darmstadt University of Technology
Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt University of Technology
Burkhard Stiller, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich and ETH Zurich
This paper presents 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.
Index Terms:
Peer-to-Peer, File Sharing, Accounting, Pricing, Charging
Citation:
David Hausheer, Nicolas C. Liebau, Andreas Mauthe, Ralf Steinmetz, Burkhard Stiller, "Token-Based Accounting and Distributed Pricing to Introduce Market Mechanisms in a Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Scenario," p2p, pp.200, Third International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'03), 2003
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