| dc.contributor.author |
Krishnan, Ramayya |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Smith, Michael D. |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Tang, Zhulei |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2012-06-21T19:19:10Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2012-06-21T19:19:10Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2004 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8019 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
"Peer-to-Peer networking is gaining popularity as a architecture for sharing information goods and other computing resources. However, these networks suffer from a high level of free-riding, whereby some users consume network resources without providing any network resources. The high Levels of free-riding observed by several recent studies have led some to suggest the imminent collapse of these communities as a viable information sharing mechanism. Our research develops analytic models to analyze the behavior of P2P networks in the presence of free-riding. In contrast to previous predictions, we find that P2P networks can operate effectively in the presence of significant free-riding. However, we also show that without external incentives, the level of free-riding in P2P networks will be higher than socially optimal. Our research also explores the implications of these findings for entrepreneurs, network designers, and copyright holders." |
en_US |
| dc.language |
English |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
information commons |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Internet |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
free riding |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
networks |
en_US |
| dc.title |
The Impact of Free-Riding on Peer-to-Peer Networks |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Conference Paper |
en_US |
| dc.type.published |
unpublished |
en_US |
| dc.type.methodology |
Case Study |
en_US |
| dc.subject.sector |
Information & Knowledge |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationconference |
37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationconfdates |
January 5-8 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationconfloc |
Hawaii |
en_US |