HYDRANET: Network support for scaling of large-scale services Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • With the explosive growth of demand for services on the Internet, the networking infrastructure (routers, protocols, servers) is under considerable stress. Mechanisms are needed for current and future IP services to scale in a client-transparent way. We present HYDRANET, an infrastructure that allows to dynamically distribute IP services by placing service agents (caching agents, mirrors, replicas) that are under the server's control at strategic points in the internetwork. HYDRANET is based on replicating transport-level service access points (TCP or UDP ports in the case of IP) for transparent distribution or replication of IP services. Measurements on a local testbed show that the overhead of our scheme is small. This form of service access point replication is widely applicable. We use HYDRANET to implement HYDRAWEB, a system for Web server replication to realize intelligent, client-transparent, Web caching. Similarly, HYDRANET can be used to implement highly fault-tolerant servers or application-level gateways. 1999 Academic Press.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

author list (cited authors)

  • Chawla, H., Dillon, G., & Bettati, R.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Chawla, H||Dillon, G||Bettati, R

publication date

  • January 1999