Dynamic overlay routing based on active probing measurements: An emulation study

摘要

Recent studies have shown that path diversity provided by overlay networks brings about possibilities to choose alternate optimal path against default one. In the present paper, we present a novel routing mechanism which chooses path based on a composite metric, whose comprising individual metrics are determined by active probing measurements including delay, jitter and bandwidth on the overlay network in a real-time fashion. The applicability of this mechanism is examined under overlay emulation environment, which is supported by the performance data collected from a real enterprise overlay network.