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A Backward-Compatible Protocol for Inter-routing over Heterogeneous Overlay Networks
Participants : Giang Ngo Hoang [contact] , Luigi Liquori, Hung Nguyen Chan [VIELINA, Vietnam] .
Overlay networks are logical networks running on the highest level of the OSI stack: they are applicative networks used by millions of users everyday. In many scenarios, it would be desirable for peers belonging to overlays running different protocols to communicate with each other and exchange certain information. However, due to differences in their respective protocols, this communication is often difficult or even impossible to be achieved efficiently, even if the overlays are sharing common objectives and functionalities. In this paper, we address this problem by presenting a new overlay protocol, called OGP (Overlay Gateway Protocol), allowing different existing networks to route messages between each other in a backward-compatible fashion, by making use of specialized peers joined together into a super-overlay. Experimental results on a large scale Grid5000 infrastructure show that having only a small number of nodes running the OGP protocol is sufficient for achieving efficient routing between heterogeneous overlay networks.
The three scenarios in Figure 11 are shown to illustrate the routing of three lookup queries, in which full OGP peers, lightweight OGP peers and blind peers interact in order to reach across overlays represent requests, while dashed lines represent responses. using the OGP super-overlay. The three smaller ovals represent standard overlays, while the largest oval represents the OGP super-overlay, forwarding messages back and forth between standard overlays. The black squares B; C; G; N and P represent full OGP peers, the black circles A; D and F represent lightweight OGP peers, while the white circles E; H, and M represent blind peers. Solid lines requests, while dashed lines represent responses. The paper is the continuation of the work of HotPost 2011 [7] and Hets-Nets 2012 [8] : it has been also accepted to ACM SAC 2013 [36] and a long version has been accepted to the International Conference ICDCN 2014 [32] .