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What is Overlay Networks

Chapter 11
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
Networks created by creating virtual interconnections between nodes, on top of the physical structure of the original network.
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Autonomic Networking
Pantelis N. Karamolegkos (Telecommunications Laboratory School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece), Charalampos Patrikakis (Telecommunications Laboratory School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece), and Emmanuel Protonotarios (Telecommunications Laboratory School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch011
Abstract
The term “autonomic networking” refers to a recently emerged communications paradigm, that uses distributed techniques (swarm intelligence based methods) and distributed hash tables to implement traditional functionalities of networking, including among others routing, service and resource discovery, addressing, load balancing etc. The shift of interest towards the autonomic networking approach has been mainly motivated by the pervasion of novel algorithms into relevant fields of computer communication science. These innovative techniques have been greatly alleviated by their fusion with already established solutions and applications (i.e. agent-based systems, network middleware development etc) so as to form a new ever-evolving landscape in networking.
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Data Replication in P2P Systems
Networks formed between nodes in large scale distributed systems which are built on top of the physical network.
Published in Chapter: Data Replication in P2P Systems; From: Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications
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