Token-based accounting and distributed pricing to introduce market mechanisms in a peer-to-peer file sharing scenario
David Hausheer, Nicolas Liebau, Andreas Mauthe, Ralf Steinmetz, Burkhard Stiller · 2004
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.