Overlay networks have emerged as a promising paradigm for providing customizable and
reliable services at the application layer, such as fault-resilient routing, multicast, and …

In the past ten years of the Internet's evolution, we have seen a tremendous increase in
complexity and processing power of end-systems, leading to a higher level of collaboration …

Dynamic overlay routing has been proposed as a way to enhance the reliability and
performance of IP networks. The major premise is that overlay routing can bypass …

This article presents a survey of recent advancements in application-layer overlay networks.
Some of the most important applications that have been proposed for overlays include …

Peer-to-peer and overlay networks allow routing to be controlled at the application layer.
Consider several independent overlay flows, each with a set of available overlay routes to …

An overlay network is a logical abstraction of the underlying physical network, comprising
end nodes and paths between end-node pairs. Many applications, such as multicast and …

Recently, overlay networks have emerged as a means to enhance end-to-end application
performance and availability. Overlay networks attempt to leverage the inherent redundancy …

By allowing end hosts to make independent routing decisions at the application level,
different overlay networks may unintentionally interfere with each other. This paper …

Overlay networks have recently gained popularity as a viable alternative to overcome
functionality limitations of the Internet (eg, lack of QoS, multicast routing). They offer …

As the role of the Internet has been steadily gaining in importance, overlays are increasingly
being used to provide new services and to deploy older ones. Some of the services for …