Why Share in Peer-to-Peer Networks?
dc.contributor.author | Jian, Lian | |
dc.contributor.author | MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-08-04T00:48:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-08-04T00:48:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC’08), Innsbruck, Austria, 19-22 August 2008 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60443> | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60443 | |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.format.extent | 182272 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.title | Why Share in Peer-to-Peer Networks? | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Information, School of | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60443/1/p2p_icec08.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Information, School of (SI) |
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