On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network

Details On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network

2004-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0401010v1

Computer Science

Networking and Internet Architecture

17 pages, 4 figures. Short version to be published in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Syst

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In this paper, we model the cost incurred by each peer participating in a peer-to-peer network. Such a cost model allows to gauge potential disincentives for peers to collaborate, and provides a measure of the ``total cost'' of a network, which is a possible benchmark to distinguish between proposals. We characterize the cost imposed on a node as a function of the experienced load and the node connectivity, and show how our model applies to a few proposed routing geometries for distributed hash tables (DHTs). We further outline a number of open questions this research has raised.

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