Market structures in peer computation sharing

Author

Senior, Mark ; Deters, Ralph

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Saskatchewan Univ., Saskatoon, Sask., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

128

Lastpage

135

Abstract

A number of systems exist for harnessing the power of idle workstations and home computers, but these only make that power available for central projects. Making the power of these systems available to home users could be achieved with a peer-to-peer architecture. An unregulated peer computation sharing system has the potential for abuse by free riders. In order to encourage contribution to the system, a free market model would allow users to ´bank´ contributed computing power with other peers, for redemption at a later time. This paper has two aims. Firstly provides an overview on existing peer-to-peer computing models. Secondly it is an investigation into the existing market models and their usability in a compute-sharing P2P system.

Keywords

Internet; home computing; resource allocation; scheduling; Internet; compute-sharing P2P system; home computers; idle workstations; market structures; peer computation sharing system; peer-to-peer architecture; resource allocation; resource scheduling; usability; Application software; Central Processing Unit; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Home computing; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Power system modeling; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2002. (P2P 2002). Proceedings. Second International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1810-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PTP.2002.1046322

Filename

1046322