David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris
8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Elmau/Oberbayern, Germany, May 2001
In this paper, we motivate and describe the architecture
of Resilient Overlay Networks (RON),
an application-level packet forwarding service that
gives end-hosts and applications the ability to take advantage of
network paths that traditional Internet routing \emph{cannot} make use of,
thereby improving their end-to-end reliability and performance.
A RON system consists of a per-host forwarding and routing system;
programs to measure the quality of paths between participating hosts;
and mechanisms for interpreting this measured data and making
routing decisions based upon that interpretation.
RONs are usable
as a purely user-level library system, with kernel support
for packet encapsulation, or as a router to overlay entire
leaf networks. We explain the reasons for the architectural
design of RON, and argue that end-host controlled
Resilient Overlay Networks
provide a good framework for distributed applications
to transmit data with greater robustness and higher performance
over the wide-area Internet.
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Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{andersen2001resilient,
author = "David G. Andersen and Hari Balakrishnan and Frans Kaashoek and Robert Morris",
title = "{The Case for Resilient Overlay Networks}",
booktitle = {8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems},
year = {2001},
month = {May},
address = {Elmau/Oberbayern, Germany}
}