The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

Cost-Profit Analysis of a Peer-to-Peer Media Architecture

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Author

Mohamed M. Hefeeda, Ahsan Habib, and Bharat K. Bhargava

Tech report number

CERIAS TR 2002-37

Entry type

techreport

Abstract

We study the economic aspects of P2P systems. We present a cost-profit analysis of a media streaming service deployed over a peer-to-peer (P2P) infrastructure. We consider the limited capacity as well as the heterogeneity of peers in the analysis. The analysis shows that with the appropriate incentives for participating peers, the service provider achieves more profit. In addition, the analysis shows how the service provider can maximize its revenue by controlling the amount of incentives offered to peers. By comparing the economics of P2P and conventional client/server media streaming architectures, we show that with a relatively small initial investment, the P2P architecture can realize a large-scale media streaming service.

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http://www.cs.purdue.edu/~mhefeeda/research.html

Institution

Purdue University

Key alpha

Hefeeda

School

School of Science

Affiliation

Department of Computer Sciences

Publication Date

1900-01-01

Contents

Introduction Cost-profit model Incentives for Peers and Revenue for the Provider Revenue Maximization Profit Comparison Related Work Conclusions and Future Work

Language

English

Subject

Peer-to-peer networks

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