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.
A prototype of PeerMart has been implemented on top of FreePastry (see student thesis below).
David Hausheer: Network Virtualisation as a Key Driver for Bandwidth Markets. Perspectives Workshop: Telecommunication Economics, Dagstuhl, Germany, January 2008. [Ha08a] Talk
David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: PeerMart: Decentralized Auctions for Bandwidth Trading on Demand. ERCIM News, No. 68, pages 42-43, January 2007. [HaSt07a] Article
David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: PeerMart: A Decentralized Auction-based Marketplace and its Application to Bandwidth Trading. P2P Seminar, University of Torino, Italy, May 2006. [HaSt06a] Talk
David Hausheer: A Decentralized Marketplace and its Application to Bandwidth Trading. Internet Economics Seminar, Dagstuhl, Germany, March 2006. [Ha06c] Talk
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] Book
David Hausheer: PeerMart and PeerMint: Pricing and Accounting in Peer-to-Peer Networks. 5th COST 290 MCM, Delft, The Netherlands, February 2006. [Ha06b] Talk
David Hausheer: PeerMart: Secure Decentralized Pricing and Accounting for Peer-to-Peer Systems. PhD Defense Talk, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, August 2005. [Ha05e] Talk
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] Incollection
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] Inproceedings
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] Inproceedings
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] Talk
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] Inproceedings
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] Talk
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] Talk
David Hausheer: PeerMart: Secure Decentralized Pricing and Accounting in Peer-to-Peer Networks. TU Darmstadt, Germany, March 2005. [Ha05b] Talk
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] Inproceedings
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] Talk
David Hausheer: PeerMart: Pricing Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Systems. MMAPPS Day, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, August 2004. [Ha04b] Talk
Hannes Geissbühler: Implementation of an Auction-based Pricing Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Systems. Student Thesis, No. SA-2004-26, Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, August 2004. [Ge04a] Thesis
David Hausheer: Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems. Dagstuhl Seminar on Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications, Dagstuhl, Germany, March 2004. [Ha04a] Talk
For more information about PeerMart, please contact David Hausheer.