On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network
<|reference_start|>On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network: In this paper, we model the cost incurred by each peer participating in a peer-to-peer network. Such a cost model allows to gauge potential disincentives for peers to collaborate, and provides a measure of the ``total cost'' of a network, which is a possible benchmark to distinguish between proposals. We characterize the cost imposed on a node as a function of the experienced load and the node connectivity, and show how our model applies to a few proposed routing geometries for distributed hash tables (DHTs). We further outline a number of open questions this research has raised.<|reference_end|>
@article{christin2004on,
    title={On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network},
    author={Nicolas Christin and John Chuang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0401010},
    year={2004},
    number={p2pecon TR-2003-12-CC},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0401010},
    primaryClass={cs.NI}
}