Resilient Dissemination through Flooding

Kieran Magee

Overview

Communication using the regular Internet is cost effective, but can suffer from interruptions due to congestion or reroutes. An overlay approach (where a relatively small number of nodes on top of an underlying network work together) allows for more stateful protocols. This project investigated flooding messages on the overlay to achieve a more resilient messaging system. In this way, since messages are flooded, if there is even one path from source to destination, the messages will arrive at the destination. The outcome of this project was a prototype system which flooded messages in an emulated environment.