A Survey on Research on the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization Problem
RFC 6029, “A Survey on Research on the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization Problem”, is an Informational document published in October 2010 by I. Rimac, V. Hilt, M. Tomsu, V. Gurbani, E. Marocco. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
A significant part of the Internet traffic today is generated by peer-to-peer (P2P) applications used originally for file sharing, and more recently for real-time communications and live media streaming. Such applications discover a route to each other through an overlay network with little knowledge of the underlying network topology. As a result, they may choose peers based on information deduced from empirical measurements, which can lead to suboptimal choices. This document, a product of the P2P Research Group, presents a survey of existing literature on discovering and using network topology information for Application-Layer Traffic Optimization. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
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