Globally Distributed Content Delivery.

Dilley, J., Maggs, B., Parikh, J., Prokop, H., Sitaraman, R., & Weihl, B. (2002). Globally Distributed Content Delivery. IEEE Internet Computing, 6(5), 50-58.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2002

Volume

6

Issue

5

Pages

50-58

DOI

10.1109/mic.2002.1036038

DOI registrant

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2002.1036038

Cited from

earth_sciences

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• Access Catchment
  • Computing and social services. CDN edge-region assignment of users to nearest cache under a latency tolerance, and food-bank or legal-aid service areas, are the same construct under different friction fields.

    This sourceDescribes the Akamai content delivery network's assignment of users to the nearest edge cache under latency cost, the computing instance of node-plus-friction-plus-tolerance catchment.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract establishes only that Akamai's system must direct user requests to appropriate servers; it says nothing about latency tolerance as the assignment rule, and nothing about food-bank or legal-aid service areas.

    “Operating servers in many locations poses many technical challenges, including how to direct user requests to appropriate servers, how to handle failures, how to monitor and control the servers, and how to update software across the system.”

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