A pricing approach to distributed resource allocation in IP and peer-to-peer networks

This work presents a novel decentralised approach for the resource allocation in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. By decomposing a global optimisation problem distributed algorithms are derived and their efficiency, fairness and stability are shown. The model is based on resource pricing for TCP/IP. Therefore, also P2P over IP networks are studied as cross-layer optimisation problem.