Unencrypted and unauthenticated protocols present security and privacy risks to end-to-end
communications. At the same time we observe that only 30% of popular web servers offer …

The incremental adoption of IPv6, middle boxes (eg, NATs, Firewalls) as well as completely
new network types and protocols paint a picture of a future Internet that consists of extremely …

Overlay routing has emerged as a promising approach to improve reliability and efficiency of
the Internet. The key to overlay routing is the placement and maintenance of the overlay …

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other time critical communications require a level of
availability much higher than the typical transport network supporting traditional data …

With the rapid development of computing and networking technologies, people propose to
build harmonious, trusted and transparent Internet-based virtual computing environments …

Network overlay construction has found many applications in today's Internet, such as P2P
networks [1][2], end-host multicast [3][4], and network security [5]. Many researchers have …

The dramatic success and scaling of the Internet was made possible by the core principle of
keeping it simple in the middle and smart at the edge (or the end-to-end principle). However …

Blockchain systems are built on top of overlay networks. While typical blockchains are based
on unstructured overlays, some other blockchains utilizes structured overlays to improve the …

Despite the success of peer-to-peer systems, a majority of their overlay architectures are
vulnerable to exploitation. Some of the features for improved performance have created …

Trusted collaborative systems require peers to be able to communicate over private,
authenticated end-to-end channels. Network-layer approaches such as Virtual Private …