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Dynamic Load Balancing in Geographically Distributed Heterogeneous Web Servers
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Redirection Algorithms for Load Sharing in Distributed Web-server Systems
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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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An architecture for virtual organization (VO)-based effective peering of content delivery networks
Proceedings of the second workshop on Use of P2P, GRID and agents for the development of content networks
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Greening geographical load balancing
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Globe'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Data management in grid and peer-to-peer systems
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Peering between Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) endeavors to ensure that each user is served by an optimal Web server in terms of network cost, even under heavy load conditions. Therefore, a dominant factor for the success of peering between CDNs is to perform load distribution to handle highly skewed loads. In this paper, our approach for dynamic load distribution adopts a request-redirection mechanism by taking traffic load and network proximity into account. The load distribution strategy reacts to overload conditions, at a time instance, in any primary CDN server(s) and instantly distributes loads to the target servers, minimizing network cost and observing practical constraints. In this context, we formulate the resulting redirection strategy and perform extensive simulations to demonstrate the novelty of our approach. We show that our approach is effective to handle high load skews, and thus achieve service "responsiveness". We also perform a sensitivity analysis to reveal that our redirection scheme outperforms other alternatives.