覆盖网体系结构及应用研究

Survey of overlay network architecture and application

覆盖网以Internet为基础,通过构建虚拟的逻辑网络可以提高网络性能,灵活地部署新应用,是一种被广泛采用的网络技术。总结分析了目前两种有影响的覆盖网体系结构,覆盖网的几种典型应用,及各自的关键技术和研究热点;最后提出了覆盖网思想在移动网格中应用的探索,及未来的发展趋势。

Overlay network,which is based on Internet,can enhance the performance of network and deploy new applications flexibly by constructing a virtual logic network.This paper summarizes two kinds of influential Overlay architectures,introduces several applications based on overlay network and their key techniques,hot research area,then explores the utilization of overlay network in mobile grid and its direction.