Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks

Albert Creus Mir (), Ramon Casadesus-Masanell () and Andres Hervas-Drane ()
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Albert Creus Mir: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell: Harvard Business School, http://www.people.hbs.edu/rmasanell/Ramon%20HBS%20CV_1_.pdf
Andres Hervas-Drane: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, http://www.ecap.uab.es/secretaria/fitxa.asp?id_personal=ahervas

No 06-23, Working Papers from NET Institute

Abstract: We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network. Given an arbitrary population of peers composed of sharers and freeriders, where all peers interconnect to maximize their allocated bandwidth, we derive the expected bandwidth obtained by sharers and freeriders. We show that sharers are always better off than freeriders and that the di®erence decreases as the size of the network grows. This paper constitutes a first step towards providing a general analytical foundation for resource allocation in peer-to-peer networks.

Keywords: Peer-to-Peer; Network formation; Resource allocation; Congestion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2006-10, Revised 2006-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ipr, nep-pr~, nep-mic, nep-net and nep-soc
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