[e2e] p2p & ad hoc wireless economics

[Jon Crowcroft]

Those of you looking at the cool new workshop on p2p economics,
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/p2pecon/
might be interested in some of the papers at WiOpt 03
which also had economic angles:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/mistral/personnel/K.Avrachenkov/WiOpt/main.html

there's obviously an interest in 
a) aligning incentives in p2p (e.g. for files and capacity, both transmit/receive, and
cache/source), and incentives in ad hoc wireless (e.g. battery life, transmit/receive
power, and signal/interference/location v. proximity, density, and variation of density
with time ...)
b) p2p and manet self organisation of content/user and mechanisms for locating and routing 
to and from it and so forth, that are resilient and don't have obvious vulnerabilities, but don't 
suffer from terrible scaling (in messages, path latency etc)

perhaps there ought to be a place one could compare notes and contrast approaches...?

cheers

j.
p.s. one obvious use for more accurate secure location based routing would be
to help US missiles to avoid targetting or hitting RAF planes. i guess one could argue that
helicopters hitting the ground might be too easy a problem for this august research
community. :-(