ABSTRACT

With their ability to solve problems in massive information distribution and processing, while keeping scaling costs low, overlay systems represent a rapidly growing area of R&D with important implications for the evolution of Internet architecture. Inspired by the author's articles on content based routing, Overlay Networks: Toward Information

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

Network Technologies

chapter 3|10 pages

Properties of Networks and Data

chapter 4|28 pages

Unstructured Overlays

chapter 5|14 pages

Foundations of Structured Overlays

chapter 6|30 pages

Distributed Hash Tables

chapter 7|22 pages

Probabilistic Algorithms

chapter 9|24 pages

Security

chapter 10|24 pages

Applications

chapter 11|4 pages

Conclusions