Loginova, Oksana; Wang, Xinghe Henry; Lu, Haibin - 2010
In this paper we study the optimal file-sharing mechanism in a peer-to-peer network with a mechanism design perspective …. This mechanism improves upon existing incentive schemes. In particular, we show that peer-approved scheme is never optimal … and service-quality scheme is optimal only under certain circumstances. Moreover, we find that the optimal mechanism can …