p2pecon@berkeley
economics-informed design of peer-to-peer, ad-hoc and
overlay networks
Project Overview
From file-sharing to mobile ad-hoc networks, community networking to
application layer overlays, the peer-to-peer networking paradigm promises
to revolutionize the way we design, build and use the communications network
of tomorrow, transform the structure of the communications industry, and
challenge our understanding of markets and democracies in a digital age.
The fundamental premise of peer-to-peer systems is that individual peers
voluntarily contribute resources to the system. However, the inherent tension
between individual rationality and collective welfare produces a misalignment
of incentives in the grassroots provisioning of p2p services. Our multi-disciplinary
research team is working to develop a framework for understanding the technical
and economic characteristics of p2p systems, and to design economic mechanisms
for incentive compatible p2p applications.
People
Alumni
Publications
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M. Feldman, J. Chuang, "Overcoming Free-Riding Behavior in Peer-to-Peer
Systems,"
ACM Sigecom Exchanges Vol. 6.1, July 2005.[pdf].
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M. Feldman, J. Chuang, "The Evolution of Cooperation under Cheap Pseudonyms,"
7th International IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05), July
2005.[pdf].
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P. Ferreira and M. Sirbu, "Inefficiency in provisioning interconnected
communication networks," ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC'05), June 2005.
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M. Feldman, J. Chuang, I. Stoica, and S. Shenker, "Hidden-Action in Multi-Hop
Routing," ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC'05), June 2005.[pdf].
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M. Feldman, K. Lai, and L. Zhang, "A Price-Anticipating Resource Allocation
Mechanism for Distributed Shared Clusters," ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC'05),
June 2005.[pdf].
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N. Christin, A. Weigend, and J. Chuang, "Content Availability, Pollution
and Poisoning in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks," ACM E-Commerce Conference
(EC'05), June 2005. [pdf].
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N. Christin and J. Chuang, "A Cost-Based Analysis of Overlay Routing Geometries,"
IEEE INFOCOM'05, March 2005 [pdf].
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M. Feldman, C. Papadimitriou, J. Chuang, and I. Stoica, "Free-Riding and
Whitewashing in Peer-to-Peer Systems," ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice
and Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS), August 2004. [pdf]
(Earlier version appeared in 3rd Annual Workshop on Economics and Information
Security (WEIS'04), May 2004. [pdf])
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N. Christin, J. Grossklags, and J. Chuang, "Near Rationality and Competitive
Equilibria in Networked Systems," ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice and
Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS), August 2004 [pdf].
(Also
see a preliminary version known as Technical Report TR-2004-04-CGC, April
2004 [pdf])
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Y.-H. Chu, J. Chuang, and H. Zhang, "A Case for Taxation in Peer-to-Peer
Streaming Broadcast," ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice and Theory of
Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS), August 2004. [pdf]
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A. Habib and J. Chuang, "Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming,"
12th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS'04), June
2004. [pdf]
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M. Feldman and J. Chuang, "Hidden-Action in Multi-Hop Routing," 2nd Workshop
on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, June 2004.[pdf]
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M. Feldman, K. Lai, I. Stoica, and J. Chuang, "Robust Incentive Techniques
for Peer-to-Peer Networks," ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC'04), May 2004.
[pdf]
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N. Christin and J. Chuang, "On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer
Network," 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'04),
February 2004. [pdf]
(Companion
Technical Report TR-2003-12-CC, December 2003. [pdf])
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K. Lai, M. Feldman, I. Stoica, and J. Chuang, "Incentives for Cooperation
in Peer-to-Peer Networks," 1st Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems,
June 2003 [pdf]
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M. Feldman, K. Lai, J. Chuang, and I. Stoica, "Quantifying Disincentives
in Peer-to-Peer Networks," 1st Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems,
June 2003 [ps]
Presentations
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In Search of Homo Swappus: Evolution of Cooperation in Peer-to-Peer
Systems. Keynote presentation, IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer
Computing, September 1 2005. [pdf]
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A Cost-Based Analysis of Overlay Routing Geometries. IEEE INFOCOM'05, March
2005 [pdf].
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Near Rationality and Competitive Equilibria in Networked Systems. ACM SIGCOMM'04
Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS),
August 2004. [pdf]
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Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems. Academia Sinica 2004 Summer Institute
on Peer-to-Peer Computing, August 2004. [pdf]
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On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network. 3rd International
Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'04), February 2004. [pdf]
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Incentives for Cooperation in Peer-to-Peer Networks, 1st Workshop on Economics
of Peer-to-Peer Systems, June 2003 [pdf]
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Quantifying Disincentives in Peer-to-Peer Networks, 1st Workshop on Economics
of Peer-to-Peer Systems, June 2003 [pdf]
Related Events
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1st Workshop on Economics
of Peer-to-peer Systems, UC Berkeley, June 2003
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2nd Workshop on Economics
of Peer-to-peer Systems, Harvard University, June 2004
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SIGCOMM
Workshop on Practice & Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS),
Portland, OR, August 2004
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ACM Conference on E-Commerce
(EC'05), Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2005
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3rd Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-peer
Systems, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005 (co-located with ACM SIGCOMM
2005)
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ACM Conference on E-Commerce
(EC'06), Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2006
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1st Workshop on Economics
of Networked Systems (NetEcon06), Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2006
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2nd Workshop on Incentive-Based Computing
(IBC'06), Lisboa, Portugal, July 2006
Related Projects
This project is sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation
under grants ANI-0085879 and ANI-0331659.