Sharing in BitTorrent Can Be Rational

Mike Ruberry; Sven Seuken

Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications. Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011, NewYork, NY, USA, August 22-23, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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Sharing in BitTorrent Can Be Rational

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    author={Mike Ruberry and Sven Seuken},
    title={Sharing in BitTorrent Can Be Rational},
    proceedings={Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications. Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011, NewYork, NY, USA, August 22-23, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={AMMA},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
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    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30913-7_8}
}

Mike Ruberry
Sven Seuken
Year: 2012
Sharing in BitTorrent Can Be Rational
AMMA
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30913-7_8

Mike Ruberry¹^,*, Sven Seuken¹^,*

1: Harvard University

*Contact email: mruberry@eecs.harvard.edu, seuken@eecs.harvard.edu

Abstract

Consider a game played by two mountaineers climbing a mountain.Both are only interested in attaining the summit and can only reach it with help from the other. Over an infinite number of discrete periods they play a symmetric simultaneous game where they may either help the other a fixed distance up the mountain at some cost, or do nothing. Can these mountaineers climb their mountain?

Published: 2012-10-08

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30913-7_8