• DocumentCode
    2760298
  • Title

    The use of multiple proxies for fast download

  • Author

    Gong, Tao

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Manitoba Univ., Winnipeg, Man.
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    1-4 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    912
  • Lastpage
    915
  • Abstract
    In many file server applications, a server usually restricts the allowed bandwidth to single IP address. This may overzealously hinder the download speed and reduce the reliability of transferring a large file in the view of one individual client. In order to improve download speed for a particular client, we consider the use of multiple proxies to share the download task. We call it MPD (multiple proxies download). The key idea of MPD is to partition the downloading task into segments and use multiple proxies which have different IP address to download different segments of the large file from the server´s mirrored site in parallel. After all the segments of the large file are downloaded, all these segments are reassembled into a complete copy. In the MPD working model, a client can acquire aggregate the bandwidth of its proxies. The download speed for the client can be dramatically increased. Downloading reliability and fault tolerance of connections can also be increased
  • Keywords
    IP networks; client-server systems; fault tolerance; file servers; IP address; download speed reliability; fault tolerance; file server applications; file transfer; multiple proxies download; Aggregates; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer crashes; Fault tolerance; File servers; Mirrors; Network servers; Reliability engineering; TCPIP;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005. Canadian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Saskatoon, Sask.
  • ISSN
    0840-7789
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8885-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCECE.2005.1557125
  • Filename
    1557125