Bazaar:Open Market Architecture for Collaborative Applications


 

Introduction

The goal of the Bazaar project is to define an architecture for open market-style collaborations for distributed applications in diverse settings. Participants of a Bazaar framework are independent entities that barter resources through selfish behavior. This framework is a departure from Cathedral-style interactions where a centralized entities define interaction rules which indepedent entities are required to follow.

Currently we have defined and applied the Bazaar framework to two different scenarios:

  • Wide-area wireless services:
    MoB: A Mobile Bazaar for Wide-area Wireless Services (Mobicom 2005 paper)
  • Peer-to-peer media streaming:
    Exploiting Natural Incentives in P2P Streaming: From the Cathedral to the Bazaar (NOSSDAV 2005 paper)

    Collaboration in a Bazaar framework exploits different incentives available in the scenario. Such incentives may be economic or financial as well as performance-related. In MoB we demonstrate architectural mechanisms necessary for economic incentives, while in the P2P streaming scenario we illustrate how performance-related incentives lead participants to collaborate with each other.

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