Peer-to-Peer Networks and Decentralized Markets (PeerMart)

PeerMart is the technology for a completely decentralized auction-based market on top of a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. PeerMart combines the economic efficiency of double auctions with the technical performance and scalability of structured P2P networks. The solution supersedes the need for a central auctioneer by distributing broker functionality over all peers. PeerMart uses redundancy to achieve robustness even in the presence of malicious peers.

At this stage of the project a couple of publications on PeerMart are available as listed below. In addition, a prototype has been implemented on top of FreePastry.

• David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: PeerMart: Decentralized Auctions for Bandwidth Trading on Demand. ERCIM News, Special Theme: Traffic Planning and Logistics, Vol. 68, January 2007.
• David Hausheer: PeerMart: Secure Decentralized Pricing and Accounting for Peer-to-Peer Systems. Diss. ETH Zurich No. 16200, Shaker Verlag, ISBN 3-8322-4969-9, Aachen, Germany, March 2006. [Ha06a]
• Jan Gerke, David Hausheer: Peer-to-Peer Market Management. Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications, LNCS 3485, Springer, pages 491-508, Heidelberg, August 2005. [GeHa05]
• David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: PeerMart: The Technology for a Distributed Auction-based Market for Peer-to-Peer Services. 40th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), Seoul, Korea, May 2005. [HaSt05b]
• David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: Decentralized Auction-based Pricing with PeerMart. 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005), Nice, France, May 2005. [HaSt05a]
• David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: PeerMint: Decentralized and Secure Accounting for Peer-to-Peer Applications. 2005 IFIP Networking Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario Canada, May 2005. [HaSt05c]
• David Hausheer, Jan Gerke, Burkhard Stiller: A Generic and Modular Accounting and Charging System for Peer-to-Peer Applications. 14. Fachtagung Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen 2005 (KiVS 05), Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 2005. [HGS05]

• David Hausheer: PeerMart: Secure Decentralized Pricing and Accounting for Peer-to-Peer Systems. PhD Defense Talk, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, August 2005. [Ha05e]
• David Hausheer: PeerMint: Decentralized and Secure Accounting for Peer-to-Peer Applications. 2005 IFIP Networking Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario Canada, May 2005. [Ha05c]
• David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: Decentralized Auction-based Pricing with PeerMart. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005), Nice, France, May 2005. [HaSt05d]
• David Hausheer: PeerMart: The Technology for a Distributed Auction-based Market for Peer-to-Peer Services. 40th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), Seoul, Korea, May 2005. [Ha05d]
• David Hausheer: PeerMart: Secure Decentralized Pricing and Accounting in Peer-to-Peer Networks. TU Darmstadt, Germany, March 2005. [Ha05b]
• David Hausheer: A Generic and Modular Accounting and Charging System for Peer-to-Peer Applications. 14. Fachtagung Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen 2005 (KiVS 05), Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 2005. [Ha05a]
• David Hausheer: PeerMart: Pricing Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Systems. MMAPPS Day, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, August 2004. [Ha04b]
• David Hausheer: Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems. Dagstuhl Seminar on Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications, Dagstuhl, Germany, March 2004. [Ha04a]

• Prof. Dr. David Hausheer

Prof. Dr. David Hausheer