Many existing overlay networks are not practical on the open Internet because of the
presence of Network Address Translation (NAT) devices and firewalls. In this paper, we …

Our goal in this paper is to provide authentication, encryption and non-repudiation services
for nodes within Peer-to-Peer networks, in an efficient and scalable way. To accomplish this …

The imperative need for a secure and privacy-focused virtual private network (VPN) solution
arises amidst growing concerns about centralized VPN architectures. The limitations of …

A gamut of secure inter-domain routing protocols has been proposed in the literature. They
use traditional PGP-like and centralized Public Key Infrastructures for trust management. In …

DoS resistant communication services in the Internet. The architecture consists of a large
scale federated overlay network with DoS protected tunnels established between overlay …

Overlay networks represent a flexible approach for distributed services deployed across
different administrative domains to group according to a given criteria without modification of …

An emerging generation of mission-critical networked applications is placing demands on
the Internet protocol suite that go well beyond the properties they were designed to …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking is widely used to exchange, contribute, or obtain files from
any participating user. Building trust relationships between peers in a large-scale distributed …

For IP to evolve into a true carrier-grade transport facility, it needs to support fast resilience
out-of-the-box. Unfortunately the de facto IP protection mechanism, Loop-Free Alternates …