TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding data-center driven content distribution
AU - Adhikari, Vijay Kumar
AU - Jain, Sourabh
AU - Ranjan, Gyan
AU - Zhang, Zhi Li
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Cloud services are radically changing the way we access the information from the Internet and how the "digital goods" are delivered to users. To enable such services, large scale data centers are deployed at various geographical locations, and the contents are replicated at multiple locations to achieve better availability and reliability. However, it is not clear given these multiple data centers how content providersplace the content and how a user query is served from the cloud. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive, yet simple and intuitive, approach that can be employed to understand the data center driven content distribution using active measurements. Additionally, applying this method on YouTube, we find that YouTube uses data-centers in more than 50 locations, and that it employs an interesting "3-step" approach to deliver videos to clients in a location-aware manner.
AB - Cloud services are radically changing the way we access the information from the Internet and how the "digital goods" are delivered to users. To enable such services, large scale data centers are deployed at various geographical locations, and the contents are replicated at multiple locations to achieve better availability and reliability. However, it is not clear given these multiple data centers how content providersplace the content and how a user query is served from the cloud. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive, yet simple and intuitive, approach that can be employed to understand the data center driven content distribution using active measurements. Additionally, applying this method on YouTube, we find that YouTube uses data-centers in more than 50 locations, and that it employs an interesting "3-step" approach to deliver videos to clients in a location-aware manner.
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U2 - 10.1145/1921206.1921232
DO - 10.1145/1921206.1921232
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79955967515
SN - 9781450304689
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, CoNEXT 2010
BT - Proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, CoNEXT 2010
T2 - 2010 ACM CoNext Student Workshop, CoNEXT 2010
Y2 - 30 November 2010 through 30 November 2010
ER -