Energy Saving Strategy and Nash Equilibrium of Hybrid P2P Networks

This paper proposes a penalty strategy with differentiated service rate based on the free riding phenomenon in P2P networks, and establishes an M/M/c+d queueing model. Based on this model, a sleep/wakeup mechanism is introduced for the peers at the service end, and a single asynchronous vacation strategy is adopted to reduce the energy consumption of the system. In addition, the energy consumption of peers in each state is quantified, and the relationship between the energy consumption and parameters of the system is analyzed. In order to avoid excessive requests for unnecessary services from requesting nodes and increasing energy consumption of the system, this paper analyzes the Nash equilibrium between the arrival rate and the net profit of a single node, and then studies the optimization of social profit. The stationary distribution of queueing model is obtained by the method of matrix geometric solution, the performance indicators of the system are constructed, and the system performance is analyzed by numerical experiments. Experimental results show that the model developed in this paper has a significant penalty effect on free riding behavior, and that the single asynchronous vacation strategy not only saves more than 10% of the total energy consumption compared with the single synchronous vacation strategy, but also makes the hybrid P2P networks more flexible and efficient.