Discovering alternate internet paths to enhance end-to-end quality of service

摘要

In the next generation Internet, the network should evolve from a plain communication medium into an endless source of services available to the end-systems. These services (i.e. Overlay Applications) would be composed of multiple cooperative distributed software elements that would build dynamic communication mesh (i.e. an Overlay Association). We propose an unstructured Super-Peer architecture (SPAD) to provide enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) between end-points within an Overlay Association.