Paper Info
Title
Robustness analysis of an unstructured overlay for media communication
Abstract
The wide diffusion of network address translators (NATs) (and, in some respect, firewalls) may prevent some applications that require direct end-to-end connectivity (e.g. real-time media) from being able to connect to the remote party. Although the solutions currently adopted rely on centralised nodes as third party relays, the distributed connectivity service (DISCOS) architecture has been recently proposed and aims at distributing such functionalities across a peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay. The original study presented some performance characteristics of the overlay, but the ability to resist to both failures and attacks was not taken into consideration. This study illustrates the robustness feature of the DISCOS overlay and suggests some minor modifications to the original mechanisms, in order to improve the overall robustness. The key component of DISCOS is its dynamic scale-free topology. Hence, the study also extends the existing literature concerning the robustness of scale-free networks, which considers only static graphs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1049/iet-com.2010.0624
Communications, IET
Keywords
Field
DocType
authorisation,graph theory,multimedia communication,peer-to-peer computing,centralised nodes,direct end-to-end connectivity,distributed connectivity service architecture,dynamic scale-free topology,firewalls,media communication,network address translators,peer-to-peer overlay,robustness analysis,scale-free networks,static graphs,third party relays,unstructured overlay
Firewall (construction),Peer-to-peer,Computer science,Computer network,Robustness (computer science),Scale-free network,Shared resource,Overlay,Network address,Relay,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
4
1751-8628
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
21
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guido Marchetto18620.64
Marco Papa Manzillo210.69
Torrero, L.310.35
Ciminiera, L.410.35