OverSim News

January 16, 2009

• OverSim was successfully deployed in the ​PlanetLab research network on about 450 nodes to provide the ​peer-to-peer name service P2PNS. The P2PNS name service is used to built a P2P SIP VoIP network without servers. There is a ​P2P SIP demo website which shows the current overlay status and allows to make P2PSIP test calls.

September 19, 2008

• Released OverSim-20080919.
  • New overlay gaming protocol PubSubMMOG
  • New overlay protocol Bamboo
  • Additional routing types:
    • Exhaustive-iterative, full-recursive, source-routing-recursive
  • Enhanced IterativeLookup module
    • Supports parallel RPCs and lookup over disjoint paths
  • Enhanced SimpleUnderlay model:
    • Added packet loss support to SimpleUDP
    • Jitter in SimpleUDP
  • NoChurn churn generator
  • Several API and INI FILE CHANGES - check your files!
  • Many other bugfixes and enhancements (take a look at doc/ChangeLog)

April 16, 2008

• Released OverSim-20080416.
  • Overlay protocol Kademlia
  • Overlay application i3 (Internet Indirection Infrastructure)
  • ALM protocol Scribe
  • TraceChurnGenerator / GlobalTraceManager modules
  • More realistic synthetic coordinates in SimpleUnderlay
  • Overlay application P2PNS (Peer-To-Peer Name Service)
  • PingCache class to reduce probe traffic
  • SimpleGameClient
  • Network partitioning/merging support
  • RecursiveLookup class
  • CommonALM-API (Application Layer Multicast)
  • Several other bugfixes and enhancements (take a look at doc/ChangeLog)

September 26, 2007

• Released OverSim-20070926.
  • Added a CommonAPI lookup() call to the XML-RPC interface
  • BaseOverlay improvements: new pointers to application layer modules
  • Bugfixes for Chord and Pastry
  • New GlobalParameters module
  • Several other bugfixes and enhancements (take a look at doc/ChangeLog)

August 31, 2007

• We'll present a live demonstration of OverSim at the ​IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2007) in Galway, Ireland next week.

July 24, 2007

• Released OverSim-20070724.
  • New overlay protocol YMMOG
  • New churn models
  • Global statistics module
  • Several bugfixes and enhancements (take a look at doc/ChangeLog)

June 1, 2007

• We've added a "Browse Source" section to this page, so users can take a look at our development svn repository.

May 11, 2007

• Released OverSim-20070511.
  • New overlay protocols: Pastry, Koorde and Broose.
  • Several bugfixes and enhancements (take a look at doc/ChangeLog)

May 7, 2007

• We'll present OverSim on the Global Internet Symposium 2007 on May 11, 2007. The paper is available for download on the ​GI website.

April 4, 2007

• Released OverSim-20070404 and INET-20061020-2-OverSim.
  • Added support to connect OverSim to real networks via TunOut.
  • Several bugfixes and enhancements (take a look at doc/ChangeLog)

March 12, 2007

• Visit us at ​CeBIT 2007 in hall 9, stand A40 for a live demonstration of OverSim!

December 15, 2007

• First public release of OverSim.