Preparation for Recitation 6

Read Resilient Overlay Networks. This papers explains how to build an overlay network on top of the existing Internet that has better properties or other features. Many Internet applications, such as peer-to-peer applications are built as overlay networks.

Please answer the follow question for recitation:

• Why does BGP "damp routing updates"?

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