Multiple Dynamic Overlay Communities and Inter-space Routing

Abstract

In a broad sense, overlays can be setup as spaces “communities” for user, data or resource access, publishing and sharing, forming domains within a larger universe. Ad-hoc creation and linking of spaces can replace single linear address spaces or hierarchically structured ones. Our focus is on how can such completely independent and autonomous spaces be created and linked dynamically and information routed between them: we propose dynamic space management and inter-space linking and routing alternatives. We compare alternative gateway strategies and gateway hotspot avoidance. We also study the efficiency of the proposed schemes analytically.