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 ...

As deployed Grids increase from tens to thousands of nodes, peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques and protocols can be used to implement scalable services and applications. The super-peer model is a novel approach that helps the convergence of P2P models and Grid environments and can be used to deploy a P2P information service in Grids. A super-peer serves a single physical organization in a Grid, and ...

Peer-to-peer networks are a promising platform for supporting entirely decentralized, distributed multi-user gaming; however, multi-player games typically require highly predictable performance from the underlying network. This is at odds with the inherently unreliable nature of peer-to-peer environments. Existing approaches to providing peer-to-peer support for multiplayer gaming focus on comp...

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This work has two objectives. The first is to study rigorously the transient behavior of some P2P networks where information is replicated and disseminated according to an epidemic type dynamics. The second is to use the insight gained in order to predict how efficient are the measures taken against peer to peer networks. Two abstract models are considered to describe the P2P file sharing based...

P2P is a promising technology to construct the underlying supporting layer of a Grid. It is known that contribution from all the peers is vital for the sustainability of a P2P community, but peers are often selfish and unwilling to contribute. In this paper we describe how to construct a fair file-exchanging P2P community. We name this community a P2P file market. Our scheme forces peers to con...

File sharing networks are among the most popular applications of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology to date [3] and have been widely studied in terms of the performance, behavior, topology and other properties. A persistent theme throughout this research has been the evidence that many P2P file sharing systems rely on the presence of altruistic users, who provide files, network capacity or some othe...

In Peer-to-Peer (P2P) media distribution, users obtain content from other users who already have it. This form of decentralized product distribution demonstrates several unique features. Only a small fraction of users in the network are queried when a potential adopter seeks a file and many of these users may even free-ride i.e. not distribute the content to others. As a result, generated deman...

In recent years, audio/video streaming has become a popular class of applications and a major consumer of network bandwidth. In this paper, we survey the problem of streaming media systems through the internet using peer to peer overlay network. There are three main different topologies of peer to peer media streaming systems; the single tree, multiple tree, and the hybrid topology. We study th...