A case for end system multicast (keynote address)
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Scalable application layer multicast
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An Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Economies
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Bullet: high bandwidth data dissemination using an overlay mesh
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
SplitStream: high-bandwidth multicast in cooperative environments
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Measuring and analyzing the characteristics of Napster and Gnutella hosts
Multimedia Systems
Considering altruism in peer-to-peer internet streaming broadcast
NOSSDAV '04 Proceedings of the 14th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
A case for taxation in peer-to-peer streaming broadcast
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Practice and theory of incentives in networked systems
Overcast: reliable multicasting with on overlay network
OSDI'00 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Symposium on Operating System Design & Implementation - Volume 4
Market models for P2P content distribution
AP2PC'02 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Agents and peer-to-peer computing
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 2
The impact of heterogeneous bandwidth constraints on DHT-Based multicast protocols
IPTPS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Scribe: a large-scale and decentralized application-level multicast infrastructure
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Preferential and Strata based P2P Model: Selfishness to Altruism and Fairness
ICPADS '06 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Volume 1
Request generation for a peer-based PVR
Proceedings of the 20th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
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Success of peer-to-peer applications in many cases is attributed to user altruism, where a user contributes some of its own resources to facilitate performance of other users. This observation has been corroborated with some experimental evidence. In this paper we make a first attempt to demonstrate that there are many scenarios where peer-to-peer resource sharing is a natural behavior that selfish users can use to improve their own performance. In particular we examine such natural incentives that exist in a streaming media application which lead such greedy users to cooperate and share resources with each other in forming an efficient overlay multicast tree. We define a freestyle Bazaar environment in which streaming media receivers interact with each other and cooperatively construct an overlay tree for improving their perception of media streams from a single server. Through simulations we demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed environment.