Management of Overlay Networks: A Survey

  • Authors:
  • Jianguo Ding;Ilangko Balasingham;Pascal Bouvry

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • UBICOMM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Third International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Overlay networks are becoming widely used for content delivery and file sharing services because they provide effective and reliable services by creating a virtual topology on top of existing networks. However, the management of overlay networks meet new challenges in the structure, security, services and deployment. This paper presents a survey of the overlay networks and correlated management. The management issues of two typical overlay networks: peer-to-peer and Virtual Private Network are investigated. As a conclusion, the management of overlay networks must import self-management (self-*) and intelligent strategies to deal with the complex management tasks, which are to deal with the dynamic, salability, resilient and security challenges on overlay networks.