Network Operator Independent Resilient Overlay for Mission Critical Applications (ROMCA)

Xian Zhang; Chris Phillips

ChinaCom2009-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

Network Operator Independent Resilient Overlay for Mission Critical Applications (ROMCA)

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339912,
    author={Xian Zhang and Chris Phillips},
    title={Network Operator Independent Resilient Overlay for Mission Critical Applications (ROMCA)},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-FCN},
    year={2009},
    month={11},
    keywords={ROMCA; resilience; reliability; mission critical},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339912}
}

Xian Zhang
Chris Phillips
Year: 2009
Network Operator Independent Resilient Overlay for Mission Critical Applications (ROMCA)
CHINACOM2009-FCN
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339912

Xian Zhang¹^,*, Chris Phillips²^,*

1: Networks Research Group, Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary, University of London London, United Kingdom
2: Networks Research Group, Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary, University of LondonLondon, United Kingdom

*Contact email: xian.zhang@elec.qmul.ac.uk, chris.phillips@elec.qmul.ac.uk

Abstract

—This paper proposes a Resilient Overlay for Mission Critical Applications (ROMCA); a novel operator-independent overlay architecture providing a resilient and reliable service across wide-area networks. One feature of ROMCA is that its overlay topology can be altered according to the underlying network conditions. Moreover, resilience is achieved by combining centralized topology construction control and distributed dynamic mapping of paths onto the overlay topology according to network conditions. ROMCA can mitigate the shortcomings of the Internet network infrastructure and provide low recovery times in the event of network failure(s).

Keywords: ROMCA; resilience; reliability; mission critical

Published: 2009-11-20
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339912