Coloured overlays and coloured lenses can both increase reading speed, but when they do their colour is not necessarily the same, suggesting that the beneficial effects of a coloured filter might depend upon the area of the visual field that it colours. We investigated the effects of overlays on reading speed and varied the size of the overlay and the colour of the surround. Children who had be...

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...

Application-layer multicast (ALM) protocols differ in, among other aspects, the topology of the underlying overlay network (e.g., tree, mesh or ring). Therefore, comparing the performance of ALM overlay networks is an important step towards assessing the inherent advantages and/or limitations of each overlay network topology. In particular, ring-based ALM overlay networks have the advantages of...

Service specific overlays are overlay networks build and setup for a single service. Since different services need different types of overlays, the setup process is pretty different. Current approaches normally allow a customer to send in an overlay specification into the overlay provisioning system (mainly centralized). In our approach, we use pattern-based management in order to run the proce...

The FPGA overlay architectures have been mainly proposed to improve design productivity, circuit portability and system debugging. In this paper, we address the use of overlay architectures for building fault tolerant SRAM-based FPGA systems and discuss the main features and design challenges of a reliability-aware overlay architecture. Keywords— FPGAs; Overlay architectures; Reliability; Fault...

In peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks, the mechanism of a peer randomly joining and leaving a network, causes a topology mismatch between the overlay and the underlying physical topology. This causes a large volume of redundant traffic in the underlying physical network as well as an extra delay in message delivery in the overlay network. Topology mismatch occurs because overlay networks are n...

In research of overlay networks, simulator takes a very important role. However, popular simulators, such as ns and PlanetLab can’t meet the scale and performance requirement of overlay research. Although it is necessary for overlay researchers to observe activities of million nodes, current simulators can not give such simulation result. To improve the overlay network research efficiency, we d...

Distributed systems desire to construct a random overlay graph for robustness, efficient information dissemination and load balancing. A random walk-based overlay construction is a promising alternative to generate an ideal random scale free overlay in distributed systems. However, a simple random walk-based overlay construction can be affected by node churn. Especially, the number of edges inc...

Peer-to-peer networks can be divided into structured and unstructured based on their overlay topologies. In reality, unstructured p2p networks with superpeers have proved their capacities to support millions of users simultaneously. However, applications deployed on this kind of overlay networks, such as file-sharing, require flooding or gossip-based message routing, which puts more overhead on...

In peer-to-peer (P2P) networks it is a central problem to maintain a so called overlay network with certain desired properties. An overlay network is defined by logical connections (i.e., the ”who knows whom” relation) between peers over an underlying physical network. If node i is connected to node j in an overlay network, it means that node i knows the address of j and so it can send messages...