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P2P Networking and Applications
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P2P Networking and Applications

by John Buford, Heather Yu, Eng Keong Lua
March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
13h 59m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 15. Managed Overlays

Physical networks are managed by their operators to assure that network services perform as expected. Although overlays are self-organizing, experience with deployed overlays indicates that additional management mechanisms are needed in some cases. This chapter compares the traditional network management functions with the requirements for managing large-scale overlays and outlines a general approach for integrating an external management agent with an overlay. In addition, we review current trends in addressing the impact of P2P traffic on ISP networks.

Introduction

In August 2007 the Skype P2P telephony service experienced a two-day outage due to a large number of users simultaneously attempting to re-login to ...

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