Resilient Overlay Network

Resilient Overlay Networks (RON) is an architecture that allows distributed Internet applications to detect and recover from disconnection or interference. Current wide area routing protocols that take at least several minutes to recover from are improved upon with this application layer overlay. The RON nodes monitor the Internet paths among themselves and will determine whether or not to reroute packets directly over the internet or over other RON nodes thus optimizing application specific metrics.[1]

The Resilient Overlay Network has a relatively simple conceptual design. RON nodes are deployed at various locations on the Internet. These nodes form an application layer overlay that cooperate in routing packets. Each of the RON nodes monitor the quality of the Internet paths between each other and uses this information to accurately and automatically select paths from each packet, thus reducing the amount of time required needed to recover from poor quality of service.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 David Andersen , Hari Balakrishnan , Frans Kaashoek , Robert Morris (December 2001). "Resilient Overlay Networks". Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles: 131–145. doi:10.1145/502034.502048.
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