Structured overlay networks form a major class of peerto-peer systems, which are touted for their abilities to scale, tolerate failures, and self-manage. Any long-lived Internet-s...
In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
We study the capacity allocation problem in service overlay networks (SON)s with state-dependent connection routing based on revenue maximization. We formulate the dimensioning pro...
— Infrastructure-based overlay networks have been proposed to support the quality of service requirements of a wide range of applications. In this paper, we study using infrastru...
Application-layer overlay networks have recently emerged as a promising solution for live media multicast on the Internet. A tree is probably the most natural structure for a mult...