Overlay networks have emerged as a powerful and flexible platform for developing new disruptive network applications. The attractive characteristics of overlay networks such as planetary-scale distributions, user-level flexibility (e.g. overlay routing) and manageability bring to overlay fault diagnosis new challenges, which include inaccessible underlying network information, incomplete and in...

Multiple perspectives on the nonlinear processes of medical innovations can be distinguished and combined using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the Medline database. Focusing on three main branches—“diseases,” “drugs and chemicals,” and “techniques and equipment”—we use base maps and overlay techniques to investigate the translations and interactions and thus to gain a bibliometric persp...

objective: retention and resistance of the implant-tissue supported overdenture may be affected by the type of attachment. the aim of this research was to compare the retention and resistance of nobel biocare ball (nbb), nobel biocare bar and clip (nbbc) and sterngold era red (erar) attachments on an implant-tissue supported overdenture model. materials and methods: the attachment samples were ...

Overlay networks among cooperating hosts have recently emerged as a viable solution to several challenging problems, including multicasting, routing, content distribution, and peer-to-peer services. Application-level overlays, however, incur a performance penalty over router-level solutions. This paper characterizes this performance penalty for overlay multicast trees via experimental data, sim...

This paper presents a dynamic hybrid Service Overlay Network (SON) for service composition for multimedia delivery in mobile networks. The overlay considers the nomadic nature of mobile nodes in the decision for node placement within the overlay as well as the types of services provided and expected Quality of Service (QoS) levels. Dynamic re-organization of the overlay reflects changes in stab...

This paper proposes Canicula, a locality-aware overlay multicast system. Its overlay network is constructed by node clustering based on network coordinate. According to the experimental results of both RDP and packets loss rate on PlanetLab, it shows that the performance of locality-aware overlay multicast is better than the other prevailing overlay multicast.

In this paper, we propose a hierarchical semantic overlay network for searching heterogeneous data over wide-area networks. In this system, data are represented as RDF triples based on ontologies. Peers that have the same semantics are organized into a semantic cluster, and the semantic clusters are self-organized into a one-dimensional ring space to form the toplevel semantic overlay network. ...

Abstract. Overlay applications are popular as they provide high-level functionality by masking the intrinsic complexity of the underlay network. However, overlays rely on the underlay to provide them with basic connectivity. Therefore, the intrinsic features of the underlay network determine the efficiency of the overlay. Accordingly, studying the interdependency of the overlay and underlay net...

Geodiversity is considered as the natural range of geological, geomorphological, and soil features, including their assemblages, relationships, properties, interpretations, and systems. A method developed for the quantitative assessment of geodiversity was applied to Paraná, a Brazilian state with an area of about 200,000 km(2). The method is based on the overlay of a grid over different maps a...

Indexing of high-dimensional data is essential for building applications such as multimedia retrieval, data mining, and spatial databases. Traditional index structures rely on centralized processing. This approach does not scale with the rapidly increasing amount of application data available on massively distributed systems like the Internet. In this paper, we propose a distributed high-dimens...