Towards fair P2P auctions over MANETs

The emergence of new mobile and wireless networks offers opportunities to expand traditional Internet applications. At the same time peer-to-peer systems become widely deployed and allow users to obtain and provide resources in a stable, scalable and reliable manner. In this paper we consider the deployment of P2P auctions over ad hoc networks. We propose a communication architecture and a protocol to support this kind of auctions. We address fairness and define two time durations: Tregister (a fair registration duration) and Tfair (a fair round duration). We show by simulation that Tfair depends on the density of the network and on the number of nodes. We also show that the proposed protocol requires multicast and is not affected by other applicationspsila traffic.