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| Title: | Why Share in Peer-to-Peer Networks? |
| Authors: | Jian, Lian
MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Citation: | International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC’08), Innsbruck, Austria, 19-22 August 2008 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60443> |
| Abstract: | Prior theory and empirical work emphasize the enormous free-riding problem facing peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing networks. Nonetheless, many P2P networks thrive. We explore two possible explanations that do not rely on altruism or explicit mechanisms imposed on the network: direct and indirect private incentives for the provision of public goods. The direct incentive is a traffic redistribution effect that advantages the sharing peer. We din this incentive is likely insufficient to motivate equilibrium content sharing in large networks. We then approach P2P networks as a graph-theoretic problem and present sufficient conditions for sharing and free-riding to co-exist due to indirect incentives we call generalized reciprocity. |
| Appears in Collections: | Information, School of (SI)
Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of
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