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
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