OverSim News

March 4, 2009

• The GI/ITG Fachgruppe KuVS has awarded the OverSim project with the KuVS Communication Software prize. The prize is awarded for innovative software for use in communication and distributed systems.

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.