• DocumentCode
    1162440
  • Title

    Globule: a collaborative content delivery network

  • Author

    Pierre, Guillaume ; Van Steen, Maarten

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Syst. Group, Vrije Univ., Amsterdam
  • Volume
    44
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    127
  • Lastpage
    133
  • Abstract
    We present Globule, a collaborative content delivery network developed by our research group. Globule is composed of Web servers that cooperate across a wide area network to provide performance and availability guarantees to the sites they host. We discuss the issues involved in developing and setting up a large-scale collaborative CDN and provide solutions for many of its unique problems
  • Keywords
    Internet; Globule network; Web servers; availability guarantees; large-scale collaborative content delivery network; wide area network; Availability; Bandwidth; Collaboration; Delay; Electronic mail; File servers; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Quality of service; Web server;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0163-6804
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCOM.2006.1678120
  • Filename
    1678120