Overlay networks are widely used to deploy functionality at edge nodes without changing
network routers. Each node in an overlay network maintains connections with a number of …

The Internet is one of the most successful technologies in last century. Within less than four
decades (starting from the first packet-switched computer network, ARPAnet), it has evolved …

Blockchains use peer-to-peer networks for disseminating information among peers, but
these networks currently do not have any provable guarantees for desirable properties such …

Historical Background. The term “peer-to-peer”(P2P) is used in many contexts to mean
different things. It was recently used to refer to the form of cooperation that emerged with the …

The Internet is a complex structure arising from the interconnection of numerous
autonomous systems (AS), each exercising its own administrative policies to reflect the …

One technique for securely delivering data in structured overlays is to increase the number
of disjoint paths among peers. However, most overlays do not offer a substrate to …

Publish-subscribe (pub-sub) is an emerging paradigm for building a large number of
distributed systems. A wide area pub-sub system is usually implemented on an overlay …

Overlay networks are networks operating on the inter-domain level, where the edge hosts
learn of each other and, based on knowledge of underlying network performance, they form …

Because introducing new protocols and services, eg, multicast or IPv6, on a global scale has
proven to be difficult for various reasons, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems have become a …