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:
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.
MoB:
A Mobile Bazaar for Wide-area Wireless Services (Mobicom 2005 paper)
Exploiting
Natural Incentives in P2P Streaming: From the Cathedral to the Bazaar (NOSSDAV 2005 paper)
Faculty
Post-doctoral researchers and students