Overlay networks have emerged as a powerful paradigm to realise a large range of distributed services. However, as the number of overlays grows and the systems that use them become...
The threat of commoditization poses a real challenge for service providers. While the end-to-end principle is often paraphrased as “dumb network, smart end-systems”, the origi...
With the proliferation of multimedia data sources on the Internet, we envision an increasing demand for value-added and functionrich multimedia services that transport, process, a...
We propose a novel alternative to application-level overlays called VIOLIN, or Virtual Internetworking on OverLay INfrastructure. Inspired by recent advances in virtual machines, ...
In the next generation Internet, the network should not only be considered as a communication medium but also as a large source of services which use entails performance, reliabil...