
44 Peer-to-Peer Computing
Data
Decision Logic
Communication
Provisions Consumptions Group Information
Utility Function Selection Function
External Intra-Group
FIGURE 3.12: UBCA components [Lage sse and Kumar, 2007].
to meet the traffic demands. For the lack of a viable P2P business model,
telecom operators have yet to reap any tangible profits fro m the proliferating
P2P applications.
Consequently, it is not surprising to see that some teleco m operators choose
to block P2P traffic. Yet such a “solution” is sometimes considered as a prob-
lem by itself because s ucc e ssful and effective blocking of P2P traffic requires
high speed detailed packet checking, whic