We advocate the notion of service overlay network (SON) as an effective means to address some of the issues, in particular, end-to-end QoS, plaguing the current Internet, and to f...
Abstract-- Overlay networks are application layer systems which facilitate users in performing distributed functions such as searches over the contents of other users. An important...
— One of the key reasons overlay networks are seen as an excellent platform for large scale distributed systems is their resilience in the presence of node failures. This resilie...
Shelley Zhuang, Dennis Geels, Ion Stoica, Randy H....
We define a family of Distributed Hash Table systems whose aim is to combine routing efficiency of the randomized networks — i.e. average path length O(log n/ log log n) vs. t...
Giovanni Chiola, Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, ...
Peer-to-peer systems such as Gnutella and Kazaa are used by millions of people for sharing music and many other files over the Internet, and they account for a significant portio...
Ali Raza Butt, Nipoon Malhotra, Sunil Patro, Y. Ch...