Experiences in Developing a Micro-payment System for Peer-to-Peer Networks

  • Authors:
  • Kaylash Chaudhary;Xiaoling Dai;John Grundy

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of the South Pacific, Fiji;The University of the South Pacific, Fiji;University of Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Micro-payment systems are an important part of peer-to-peer P2P networks and address the "free-rider" problem in most existing content sharing systems. To address this issue, the authors have developed a new micro-payment system for content sharing in P2P networks called P2P-Netpay. This is an offline, debit based protocol that provides a secure, flexible, usable and reliable credit service. This article compares micro-payment with non-micro-payment credit systems for file sharing applications and finds that this approach liberates the "free-rider" problem. The authors analyse the heuristic evaluation performed by a set of evaluators and present directions for research aiming to improve the overall satisfaction and efficiency of the proposed model.