2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
DOH: A Content Delivery Peer-to-Peer Network
Authors : Jimmy Jernberg, Vladimir Vlassov, Ali Ghodsi, Seif Haridi
Published in: Euro-Par 2006 Parallel Processing
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Many SMEs and non-profit organizations suffer when their Web servers become unavailable due to flash crowd effects when their web site becomes popular. One of the solutions to the flash-crowd problem is to place the web site on a scalable CDN (Content Delivery Network) that replicates the content and distributes the load in order to improve its response time.
In this paper, we present our approach to building a scalable Web Hosting environment as a CDN on top of a structured peer-to-peer system of collaborative web-servers integrated to share the load and to improve the overall system performance, scalability, availability and robustness. Unlike cluster-based solutions, it can run on heterogeneous hardware, over geographically dispersed areas. To validate and evaluate our approach, we have developed a system prototype called DOH (DKS Organized Hosting) that is a CDN implemented on top of the DKS (Distributed K-nary Search) structured P2P system with DHT (Distributed Hash table) functionality [9]. The prototype is implemented in Java, using the DKS middleware, the Jetty web-server, and a modified JavaFTP server. The proposed design of CDN has been evaluated by simulation and by evaluation experiments on the prototype.