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This chapter focuses on the economic aspects of Peer-to-Peer networks. In particular, it describes the most important requirements and presents a basic architecture for a market-managed Peer-to-Peer system supporting commercial applications going beyond pure file sharing. In general Peer-to-Peer systems can be used to share any kind of resource, including but not limited to, computing power, storage space, network capacity, files, and any combination thereof, e.g., online games or multimedia streams. In the following, the term service will be used to refer to the individual provision of goods or resources by peers. The main goal is a completely decentralized and generic marketplace for efficient trading of such services among peers.
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Gerke, J., Hausheer, D. (2005). 29. Peer-to-Peer Market Management. In: Steinmetz, R., Wehrle, K. (eds) Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3485. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11530657_29
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