Multicast is an important communication paradigm, upon which many distribution applications are built, such as video-on-demand, live broadcasting, teleconferencing, large-volume content dissemination, etc. The efforts to support multicast at IP layer, however, have proved to be slow and painful, due to factors such as ISP’s lack of incentives, shortage of address space, difficulty to support re...

Overlay networks have recently emerged as an effective means to provide a flexible, robust, and scalable platform for distributed applications, while leaving the underlying Internet infrastructure unchanged. This work tackles the overlay network design problem considering both centralized and fully distributed approaches. On one hand, we address the centralized overlay network design problem us...

In overlay-based applications, multiple overlay networks are deployed to fulfill different service requirements. A multioverlay environment may exist in which a number of nodes simultaneously participate in the networks. When there are multiple overlay-based applications running over a set of nodes, some of the nodes take extra effort to maintain multi-overlay networks. Therefore, maintaining t...

PlanetLab has been widely used in the networking community to test and deploy user-defined overlays. Serving as a meta testbed to support multiple overlay networks, PlanetLab has significantly lowered the barriers to build new overlays. However, PlanetLab users always face the problem of selecting a set of nodes and interconnecting them to form the desired overlay network. Unfortunately, such a...

Due to overprovisioning of infrastructure nodes in overlay networks, many nodes remain idle at times of low network load. Some of these nodes could be temporary removed from the overlay topology and could then be used for other purposes or alternatively be temporarily shut down, to save energy. In this paper we present several algorithms to select the subset of overlay nodes that should be part...

A substantial number of massive large-scale applications require scalable underlying network topologies. Nowadays structured Peer-to-Peer overlay networks meet these requirements very well. But there is still a need to decide which of these overlay networks is most suitable for providing the best possible performance for a certain application. This paper describes SimCon a simulation environmen...

In this work, we propose a configurable many-core overlay for high-performance embedded computing. The size of internal memory, supported operations and number of ports can be configured independently for each core of the overlay. The overlay was evaluated with matrix multiplication, LU decomposition and Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT) on a ZYNQ-7020 FPGA platform. The results show that using a sy...

Internet overlay services must adapt to the substrate network topology and link properties to achieve high performance. A common overlay structure management layer is desirable for enhancing the architectural modularity of service design and deployment. For instance, new link probing techniques can be incorporated into the common structure layer such that a large number of overlay services can ...

A foundational issue underlying many overlay network applications ranging from routing to peer-to-peer file sharing is that of the network formation, i.e., folding new arrivals into an existing overlay, and rewiring to cope with changing network conditions. A typical overlay network for routing or content sharing, each node must select a fixed number of immediate overlay neighbors for routing t...

This paper explores the model of providing a common overlay structure management layer to assist the construction of large-scale wide-area Internet services. To this end, we propose Saxons, a distributed software layer that dynamically maintains a selected set of overlay links for a group of nodes. Saxons maintains high-quality overlay structures with three performance objectives: low path late...