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| Title: | Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks |
| Authors: | Creus Mir, Albert - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon - Harvard Business School
Hervas-Drane, Andres - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona |
| Keywords: | Peer-to-Peer, Network formation, Resource allocation, Congestion |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | NET Institute Working Paper;06-23 |
| Abstract: | We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer
file sharing network. Given an arbitrary population of peers composed of
sharers and freeriders, where all peers interconnect to maximize their
allocated bandwidth, we derive the expected band- width obtained by
sharers and freeriders. We show that sharers are always better off than
freeriders and that the difference decreases as the size of the network
grows. This paper constitutes a first step towards providing a general
analytical foundation for resource allocation in peer-to-peer networks. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/28466 |
| Appears in Collections: | NET Institute Working Papers Series
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