A Taxonomy of CDNs
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A Taxonomy of CDNs Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya
2.1 Introduction Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) [79, 97] have received considerable research attention in the recent past. A few studies have investigated CDNs to categorize and analyze them, and to explore the uniqueness, weaknesses, opportunities, and future directions in this field. Peng presents an overview of CDNs [75]. His work describes the critical issues involved in designing and implementing an effective CDN, and surveys the approaches proposed in literature to address these problems. Vakali et al. [95] present a survey of CDN architecture and popular CDN service providers. The survey is focused on understanding the CDN framework and its usefulness. They identify the characteristics and current practices in the content networking domain, and present an evolutionary pathway for CDNs, in order to exploit the current content networking trends. Dilley et al. [29] provide an insight into the overall system architecture of the leading CDN, Akamai [1]. They provide an overview of the existing content delivery approaches and describe Akamai’s network infrastructure and its operations in detail. They also point out the technical challenges that are to be faced while constructing a global CDN like Akamai. Saroiu et al. [84] examine content delivery from the point of view of four content delivery systems: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Web traffic, the Akamai CDN, Gnutella [8, 25], and KaZaa [62, 66] peer-to-peer file sharing systems. They also present significant implications for large organizations, service providers, network infrastructure providers, and general content delivery providers. Kung et al. [60] describe a taxonomy for content networks and introduce a new class of content networks that perform “semantic aggregation and content-sensitive placement” of content. They classify content networks based on their attributes in two dimensions: content aggregation and content placement. Sivasubramanian et al. [89] identify the issues Mukaddim Pathan GRIDS Lab, Department of CSSE, The University of Melbourne, Australia, e-mail: [email protected] Rajkumar Buyya GRIDS Lab, Department of CSSE, The University of Melbourne, Australia, e-mail: [email protected] R. Buyya et al. (eds.), Content Delivery Networks, c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
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for building a Web replica hosting system. Since caching infrastructure is a major building block of a CDN (e.g. Akamai) and content delivery is initiated from the origin server, they consider CDNs as replica hosting systems. In this context, they propose an architectural framework, review related research work, and categorize them. A survey of peer-to-peer (P2P) content distribution technologies [11] studies current P2P systems and categorize them by identifying their non-functional properties such as security, anonymity, fairness, increased scalability, and performance, as well as resource management, and organization capabilities. Through this study the autho
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