Peer-to-peer direct sales

Author

Wierzbicki, Adam ; Goworek, Krzysztof

Author_Institution

Polish-Japanese Inst. of Inf. Technol., Warszawa, Poland

fYear

2005

fDate

31 Aug.-2 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

113

Abstract

The article describes and gives an economic analysis of a business model for commercial content delivery networks (CDN) based on the peer-to-peer model. The content is stored in the CDN on the hosts of the peers. A user pays for access to the content, and can sell the content to other users as in a direct sales network. The content trade is a free market transaction (including billing and accounting) handled by superpeers, who receive a markup for their services and pay the content provider a gratification for every transaction. The system makes use of reputation mechanisms with a goal contrary to most P2P research: to promote content trading and discourage sharing for free. The article compares the profit obtained by the content provider in a client-server CDN and the P2P CDN, and analyzes the stable-state prices in a P2P CDN.

Keywords

client-server systems; economics; peer-to-peer computing; pricing; P2P CDN; business model; client-server CDN; commercial content delivery network; content trading; economic analysis; free market transaction; peer-to-peer direct sales; peer-to-peer model; Business; Concrete; Information analysis; Information technology; Licenses; Marketing and sales; Mechanical factors; Peer to peer computing; Steady-state; Technological innovation; Peer-to-peer; content delivery; direct sales; economic model; free market; reputation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2005. P2P 2005. Fifth IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2376-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/P2P.2005.25

Filename

1551026