Service overlay networks have attracted much attention and generated a great deal of research and discussionk in recent years. At this time when the Internet is plagued by numerous incfflicicncies and security holes, overlay networks have been laudml by many as revolutionary in the testing and deployment of more efficient applications or applying desirable and oit necessary features in the Internet. Some researchers have gone a. step further and have proposed overlay networks as the core upon which future Internet models will be based.
The attention devoted to overlay networks has resulted in a multitude of overlay architw tures, models and applications being proposed. This has led to a very jumbled and disseminated field with little affinity between the different architectures and applications suggested.
Additionally, most of the architectures proposed ignore the security of the architecture as a whole and inherit or exacerbate the security issue-i prevalent in the Internet.
The objective of this dissertation is two fold:
1. Identify a generalized overlay architecture that can support or be easily modified to support most overlay applications.
2. Provide a comprehensive security framework for the generalized overlay architectul that can be plugged into any application the overlay supports.
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