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.

General Information

Project Overview

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.

Publications

• 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]

Talks

• 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]

UZH Personnel

• Dr. David Hausheer

Contact

Inquiries may be directed to:
Dr. David Hausheer
University of Zürich, IFI
Binzmühlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zürich
Switzerland
E-Mail: hausheer@ifi.uzh.ch
Phone: +41 44 635 43 72
Fax: +41 44 635 68 09