Overcoming Free-riding Behavior in Peer-to-Peer Systems

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Overcoming Free-riding Behavior in Peer-to-Peer Systems (2005)

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by Michal Feldman , John Chuang

Venue:	ACM Sigecom Exchanges
Citations:	76 - 0 self

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@ARTICLE{Feldman05overcomingfree-riding,
    author = {Michal Feldman and John Chuang},
    title = {Overcoming Free-riding Behavior in Peer-to-Peer Systems},
    journal = {ACM Sigecom Exchanges},
    year = {2005},
    volume = {6},
    pages = {2005}
}

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Abstract

While the fundamental premise of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems is that of voluntary resource sharing among individual peers, there is an inherent tension between individual rationality and collective welfare that threatens the viability of these systems. This paper surveys recent research at the intersection of economics and computer science that targets the design of distributed systems consisting of rational participants with diverse and selfish interests. In particular, we discuss major findings and open questions related to free-riding in P2P systems: factors affecting the degree of free-riding, incentive mechanisms to encourage user cooperation, and challenges in the design of incentive mechanisms for P2P systems.

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peer-to-peer system free-riding behavior p2p system incentive mechanism user cooperation major finding collective welfare inherent tension individual peer recent research selfish interest individual rationality open question computer science fundamental premise distributed system voluntary resource sharing rational participant

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