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A fundamental problem in structured overlays is how to reflect the physical environment when nodes forward messages based on logical positions, independent of physical machines and physical network components. If the number of node groups that forward messages is reduced, costs are reduced for the entire network. However, when designing such an efficient algorithm, the characteristics of existing...