COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS OF OVERLAY NETWORKS: A PERSPECTIVE

The main objective of this research is to minimize delay in collaborative applications by setting tight bounds. Examples of collaborative applications include video-conferencing, distributed database replication and online games. The efficiency of this work is analyzed and shown to be superior to its counterparts in the execution time. To provide an efficient heuristic to obtain a multicast sub network on an overlay network, given a source and a set of destinations that is within a specified maximum delay and a specified maximum variation in the delays from a source to the destinations.