Semantics of Caching with SPOCA: A Stateless, Proportional, Optimally-Consistent Addressing Algorithm
This paper describes the essential parts of Yahoo’s video delivery system. The Yahoo! Video Platform has a library of over 20 million …
The Akamai network: a platform for high-performance internet applications
Abstract Comprising more than 61,000 servers located across nearly 1,000 networks in 70 countries worldwide, the Akamai platform delivers hundreds of billions …
An Extensible Protocol Architecture for Application-Specific Networking
Abstract Plexus is a networking architecture that allows applications to achieve high performance with customized protocols. Application-specific protocols are written in a …
GlobeDB: Autonomic Data Replication for Web Applications
We present GlobeDB, a system for hosting Web applications that performs autonomic replication of application data. GlobeDB offers data-intensive Web applications the …
Globule: A Collaborative Content Delivery Network
We present Globule, a collaborative content delivery network developed by our research group. Globule is composed of Web servers that cooperate across …
Replication for Web Hosting Systems
Replication is a well-known technique to improve the accessibility of Web sites. It generally offers reduced client latencies and increases a site’s …
Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web
We describe a family of caching protocols for distributed networks that can be used to decrease or eliminate the occurrence of hot …
WhyHigh : Moving Beyond End-to-End Path Information to Optimize CDN Performance
Abstract: Replicating content across a geographically distributed set of servers and redirecting clients to the closest server in terms of latency has …