Resilient Overlay Networks

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Resilient Overlay Networks (2001)

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by David Andersen , Hari Balakrishnan , Frans Kaashoek , Robert Morris

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@MISC{Andersen01resilientoverlay,
    author = {David Andersen and Hari Balakrishnan and Frans Kaashoek and Robert Morris},
    title = { Resilient Overlay Networks},
    year = {2001}
}

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Abstract

A Resilient Overlay Network (RON) is an architecture that allows distributed Internet applications to detect and recover from path outages and periods of degraded performance within several seconds, improving over today’s wide-area routing protocols that take at least several minutes to recover. A RON is an application-layer overlay on top of the existing Internet routing substrate. The RON nodes monitor the functioning and quality of the Internet paths among themselves, and use this information to decide whether to route packets directly over the Internet or by way of other RON nodes, optimizing application-specific routing metrics. Results from two sets of measurements of a working RON deployed at sites scattered across the Internet demonstrate the benefits of our architecture. For instance, over a 64-hour sampling period in March 2001 across a twelve-node RON, there were 32 significant outages, each lasting over thirty minutes, over the 132 measured paths. RON’s routing mechanism was able to detect, recover, and route around all of them, in less than twenty seconds on average, showing that its methods for fault detection and recovery work well at discovering alternate paths in the Internet. Furthermore, RON was able to improve the loss rate, latency, or throughput perceived by data transfers; for example, about 5 % of the transfers doubled their TCP throughput and 5 % of our transfers saw their loss probability reduced by 0.05. We found that forwarding packets via at most one intermediate RON node is sufficient to overcome faults and improve performance in most cases. These improvements, particularly in the area of fault detection and recovery, demonstrate the benefits of moving some of the control over routing into the hands of end-systems.

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resilient overlay network ron node fault detection today wide-area routing protocol internet application loss rate intermediate ron node significant outage tcp throughput 64-hour sampling period twenty second data transfer path outage recovery work alternate path degraded performance several minute twelve-node ron thirty minute loss probability application-specific routing metric application-layer overlay several second internet path

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