FastReplica: Efficient Large File Distributions within Content Delivery Networks

Authors: Ludmila Cherkasova, Jangwon Lee

Complete Citation

• L.Cherkasova, J. Lee. FastReplica: Efficient Large File Distribution within Content Delivery Networks. Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, Seattle, Washington, March 26-28, 2003.

Annotations

Striegel: FastReplica and its variants (ALM-FastReplica) focus on how to distribute content quickly to multiple CDNs in the absence of an underlying IP multicast infrastructure. The distribution has similar properties to BitTorrent? in its file splitting (i.e. split into n subfiles) but focuses primarily on how to push out content rapidly to a series of controlled distribution nodes. The scale of the work focuses on large files (service packs, movie files, etc.) with experiments on Planetlab-esque situations (Internet2). Key contributions of the work include performance derivations, the addition of reliability, and the experiments.

Tags (Striegel): CDN, File Distribution

Related Work By Author

• L.Cherkasova Optimizing the Reliable Distribution of Large Files within CDNs. Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'2005), Spain, 2005.
• L.Cherkasova ALM-FastReplica: Optimizing the Reliable Distribution of Large Files within CDNs. HP Laboratories Report No. HPL-2005-64, 2005.
• Fast Replica Website at HP - see website for paper download