Peering of Content Delivery Networks

Book - "Content Delivery Networks" (Publisher: Springer)

Introduction

The proliferation of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) reveals that existing content networks are owned and operated by individual companies. As a consequence, closed delivery networks are evolved which do not cooperate with other CDNs and in practice, islands of CDNs are formed. Moreover, the logical separation between contents and services in this context results in two content networking domains. A unified content network that supports the coordinated composition and delivery of content and services would be much better. Finding ways for distinct content networks to coordinate and cooperate with other content networks is necessary for better overall service. In addition to that, meeting the QoS requirements of users according to the negotiated Service Level Agreements between the user and the content network is a burning issue in this perspective. Hence, we are researching on an open, scalable and Service-Oriented Architecture based system that assists the creation of open Content and Service Delivery Networks (CSDN). These open CSDNs scale and support sharing of resources through peering with other CSDNs. Web servers within each CSDN are capable of delivering services in order to meet QoS requirements of end-users. We propose Virtual Organization (VO) model for forming CSDNs that not only support sharing of Web servers within their own networks, but also with other CSDNs. Realizing our VO model for forming CSDNs and the policy framework within the VO should be a timely contribution to the ongoing content-networking trend. Our work on peering CDNs is a joint collaboration between the GRIDS laboratory, University of Melbourne, and the DSN Laboratory, RMIT University, Australia.

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Publications

Books:

Rajkumar Buyya, Mukaddim Pathan, and Athena Vakali (Eds.), Content Delivery Networks, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE), Vol. 9, Springer-Verlag, Germany, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-540-77886-8.

Book Chapters:

Mukaddim Pathan, Rajkumar Buyya, and Athena Vakali, "CDNs: State of the Art, Insights, and Imperatives", Content Delivery Networks, R. Buyya, M. Pathan, and A. Vakali (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Germany, 2008.
Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, "A Taxonomy of CDNs", Content Delivery Networks, R. Buyya, M. Pathan, and A. Vakali (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Germany, 2008.
Mukaddim Pathan, Rajkumar Buyya, and James Broberg, "Internetworking of CDNs", Content Delivery Networks, R. Buyya, M. Pathan, and A. Vakali (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Germany, 2008.

Journal & Conference Papers:

Rajkumar Buyya, Mukaddim Pathan, James Broberg, and Zahir Tari. A Case for Peering of Content Delivery Networks, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 7, no. 10, 2006, art. no. 0610-o10003, Los Alamitos, CA, USA.
Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, Economy-based Content Replication for Peering Content Delivery Networks, IEEE TCSC Doctoral Symposium, In proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 14-17 May, 2007.
Mukaddim Pathan, James Broberg, Kris Bubendorfer, Kyong Hoon Kim, and Rajkumar Buyya, An Architecture for Virtual Organization (VO)-based Effective Peering of Content Delivery Networks, UPGRADE-CN'07, In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2007), Monterey Bay, California, USA, 25-29 June, 2007.
Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, Architecture and Performance Models for QoS-Driven Effective Peering of Content Delivery Networks, Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal, ISSN: 1574-1702, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008 (in press, accepted on May 09, 2008).
Mukaddim Pathan, Christian Vecchiola, and Rajkumar Buyya, Load and Proximity Aware Request-Redirection for Dynamic Load Distribution in Peering CDNs, In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2008), Monterrey, Mexico, 12-14 November, 2008.

Technical Reports:

Rajkumar Buyya, Mukaddim Pathan, James Broberg, and Zahir Tari. A Case for Peering of Content Delivery Networks (extended version), Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-16, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia. 07 September, 2006.
Mukaddim Pathan, Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg, and Kris Bubendorfer, Economy-based Content Replication for Peering Content Delivery Networks (extended version), Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-21, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, 04 December, 2006.
Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, A Taxonomy and Survey of Content Delivery Networks, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-4, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, 12 February, 2007.
Mukaddim Pathan, James Broberg, and Rajkumar Buyya, An Approach for QoS-Driven Performance Modeling of Peering Content Delivery Networks, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-19, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, 31 October, 2007.

Software Requirements Specification:

Mukaddim Pathan, Internetworking of Content Delivery Networks through Peering, Technical Report, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, 10 March, 2008.

Peering of Content Delivery Networks

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