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Exploring the Sustainability of Credit-incentivized Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution
2012
2012 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
Credit-based incentives were proposed to incite peer contributions in P2P content distribution systems. Their effectiveness was extensively analyzed from a game theory perspective. Little attention however has been paid to a potential threat to such systems-the possible condensation of credits in a small number of peers over time. Credits condensation puts system sustainability on the line: many peers gradually run out of credits and cannot keep up a decent download rate. We study the
doi:10.1109/icdcsw.2012.40
dblp:conf/icdcsw/QiuHWLL12
fatcat:ixp646hahfb4vpkipcxi4ublv4