Token-Based Accounting and Distributed Pricing to Introduce Market Mechanisms
Key: HLM+03-1
Author: David Hausheer, Nicolas Liebau, Andreas Mauthe, Ralf Steinmetz, Burkhard Stiller
Date: September 2003
Kind: In proceedings
Book title: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Keywords: Peer-to-Peer, File Sharing, Accounting, Pricing, Charging
Abstract: 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.

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