In this paper we look at business models for mobile peer-to-peer content distribution channel and discuss how different factors such as content type and pricing method affect the choice of business model. We identify and explain in more detail these environmental factors of business models. In effect, we try to find out if there is a profitable content business model that would suit the needs o...

On a decentralized network, like Peer-to-Peer (P2P), users can see from where the information arrives, as well communicate their opinions on both the information they have acquired, and the peers who are its source. These personal opinions can be collected, exchanged, and evaluated. Furthermore, these opinions, when evaluated, can be used as guidelines for searching for information, and recomme...

Estimating the life-cycle or duration of a product can be an important input into a firm's decision-making related to production and marketing. In the music industry, online Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have attracted millions of potential music consumers and have had substantial impact on the music business. In this paper, we investigate the possible use of P2P information in estimating product...

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This paper presents a token-based accounting mechanism that alleviates the free riding problem in P2P networks. The approach is complemented by distributed pricing as a flexible and viable scheme to incite users to share valuable content and to efficiently balance requests among all peers based on economic decisions.

Today, Peer-to-Peer applications are predominant on the internet when considered in terms of its tra c consumption. However apart from Skype, their commercial success is still very limited. This is due to the di culties faced when trying to implement crucial functionality such as accounting and charging without violating the Peer-to-Peer paradigm. A fully decentralized accounting scheme based o...

We have implemented a small-scale peer-to-peer based environment called Comtella, which allows faculty, graduate and undergraduate students to contribute and share URLs of class-related resources, like academic and popular articles. The system has been deployed for three months in a university course on ethics and information technology with thirty five undergraduate students. We deployed two m...

Since the emergence of e-learning several years ago, the anticipated benefits of sharing content using P2P networks have not really been achieved yet. Clearly, sharing of music and similar content works fine using P2P technology. In this paper we explore whether and how P2P network technology could be used to share e-learning content. Our contribution is to analyze the requirements for P2P cont...

Peer-to-peer lending platforms such as Prosper Marketplace facilitate lending by matching potential borrowers with potential lenders using an auction mechanism. Borrowers can post loan requests and lenders can bid on a request specifying a minimum interest rate and an amount they are willing to lend. In this paper we analyze the impact of social information on the interest rate of funded loans ...

We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network. Given an arbitrary population of peers composed of sharers and freeriders, where all peers interconnect to maximize their allocated bandwidth, we derive the expected bandwidth obtained by sharers and freeriders. We show that sharers are always better off than freeriders and that the difference decreases ...