WebSeAl: Web Server Allocation

Abstract

With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web, clients attempting to access some popular web sites are experiencing slow response times due to server load and network congestion. Replacing the single server machine with a set of replicated servers is a cost-effective solution to partition server load which also allows incremental scalability and fault transparency. Distributing these replicated servers geographically can reduce network congestion and increase availability. However, distributed web sites are faced with the issue of allocating servers: how do clients find out about he replicas and how do they decide which one to contact? Popular web sites have well publicized server names and require a transparent mapping of the public server name to replicated servers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA439737

Entities

People

  • Ariel Orda
  • Mehmet Karaul
  • Yannis A. Korilis

Organizations

  • New York University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer Communications
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Congestion
  • Continents
  • Geographic Distribution
  • Information Operations
  • Intellectual Property
  • Load Distribution
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • New York
  • Standards
  • Websites
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Economics
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.