Bidding in P2P Content Distribution Networks using the Lightweight Currency Paradigm

  • Authors:
  • Elharith Elrufaie;David A. Turner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ITCC '04 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 2 - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper presents a micro-payment-based architecturefor P2P content distribution networks using the LightweightCurrency Protocol. Under this architecture, autonomouspeers form a dynamic overlay network that evolves as peersbuy and sell documents with the Lightweight Currency Protocol(LCP). By adopting a payment-based system, memberpeers are forced to contribute resources in order to obtainbenefits, thus eliminating the free-rider problem. Wepresent a document search mechanism that is based on bidding,with the use of micro-payments.