NeTs: Small: Economic Incentives for P2P: Theory and Design

Nets：小型：P2P 的经济激励：理论与设计

• 批准号: 1018032
• 负责人: Keith Ross
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1018032&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTs; Small; Economic; Incentives; P2P

Although P2P has proven itself as a viable architectural paradigm for distributed applications, the success of future P2P applications ultimately depends on convincing users to volunteer these resources. In this project, two inter-related P2P incentive paradigms are under investigation. In the first paradigm, called Networked Asynchronous Bilateral Trading (NABT), each user has a set of online friends. Users can trade asynchronously with direct friends using local currency and a debt limits. NABT also allows trades to pass through intermediaries. For file sharing, NABT is almost as efficient as a perfect economy, where all users can trade directly with each other. Research is also aimed at extending NABT, developing designs and theories for heterogeneous P2P resource markets. The second paradigm, called Closed P2P Communities, uses a lightweight centralized banking infrastructure. Here the focus is on designing and analyzing a new class of powerful, but lightweight currency-based incentive schemes. Game theory is being applied to design incentive mechanisms that optimize deal throughput for diverse P2P markets and pricing theory is used to study the pricing dynamics in closed P2P communities. Novel approaches for detecting and evicting colluders are also under development. Prototypes for both incentive paradigms will be constructed. The project will provide a framework for a new P2P computing paradigm. It will involve undergraduate and graduate students, especially minority students. Interactions with industry will be facilitated through the CATT center at NYU-Poly. Educational material will be developed and disseminated for undergraduate and graduate level networking courses taught by the PIs at NYU-Poly.

尽管P2P已经证明自己是分布式应用程序的可行架构范例，但未来P2P应用程序的成功最终取决于说服用户自愿提供这些资源。在这个项目中，研究了两种相互关联的P2P激励模式。在第一种模式中，称为网络异步双边交易（NABT），每个用户都有一组在线朋友。用户可以使用当地货币和债务限额与直接好友进行异步交易。NABT还允许交易通过中介进行。对于文件共享，NABT几乎和一个完美的经济体一样高效，所有用户都可以直接相互交易。研究还旨在扩展NABT，开发异构P2P资源市场的设计和理论。第二种模式称为封闭P2P社区，使用轻量级的集中式银行基础设施。这里的重点是设计和分析一类新的强大但轻量级的基于货币的激励机制。博弈论被应用于设计激励机制，以优化不同P2P市场的交易吞吐量，定价理论被用于研究封闭P2P社区的定价动态。检测和驱逐共谋者的新方法也在开发中。将构建两种激励范式的原型。该项目将为新的P2P计算范式提供一个框架。它将涉及本科生和研究生，特别是少数民族学生。与工业界的互动将通过纽约大学- poly的CATT中心促进。由纽约大学- poly的pi教授的本科和研究生水平的网络课程将开发和分发教育材料。