Distributed hash table (DHT) networks based on consistent hashing functions have an inherent load balancing problem. The problem becomes more severe due to the heterogeneity of ne...
With the ever-increasing demands on server applications, many new server services are distributed in nature. We evaluated one hundred deployed systems and found that over a one-yea...
Abdur Chowdhury, Ophir Frieder, Paul Luse, Peng-Ju...
— In many networked applications, independent caching agents cooperate by servicing each other’s miss streams, without revealing the operational details of the caching mechanis...
— Routing policies used in the Internet tend to be restrictive limiting communication between source-destination pairs to one route, when often better alternates exist. To avoid ...
Internet topology information is only made available in aggregate form by standard routing protocols. Connectivity information and latency characteristicsmust therefore be inferre...