Aside from routing, there exist many algorithms that exploit the structure of the overlay network for sending a message to all nodes, or a subset of nodes, in a DHT.<ref>{{cite web|author=[[Ali Ghodsi]]|url=http://www.sics.se/~ali/thesis/|title= Distributed k-ary System: Algorithms for Distributed Hash Tables |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070522060750/http://www.sics.se/~ali/thesis/ |archive-date=422 JanuaryMay 2007|date=22 May 2007 |url-status=dead}}. KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 2006.</ref> These algorithms are used by applications to do [[overlay multicast]], range queries, or to collect statistics. Two systems that are based on this approach are Structella,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Castro |first1=Miguel |last2=Costa |first2=Manuel |last3=Rowstron |first3=Antony |title=Should we build Gnutella on a structured overlay? |journal=ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review |date=1 January 2004 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=131 |doi=10.1145/972374.972397 |citeseerx=10.1.1.221.7892 |s2cid=6587291 |url=http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/HotNets-II/papers/structella.pdf }}</ref> which implements flooding and random walks on a Pastry overlay, and DQ-DHT, which implements a dynamic querying search algorithm over a Chord network.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Talia |first1=Domenico |last2=Trunfio |first2=Paolo |title=Enabling Dynamic Querying over Distributed Hash Tables |journal=Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing |date=December 2010 |volume=70 |issue=12 |pages=1254–1265 |doi=10.1016/j.jpdc.2010.08.012 }}</ref>
