The end-to-end effects of Internet path selection
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Modeling TCP Reno performance: a simple model and its empirical validation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Analyzing factors that influence end-to-end Web performance
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
On the use and performance of content distribution networks
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
DNS performance and the effectiveness of caching
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Globally Distributed Content Delivery
IEEE Internet Computing
King: estimating latency between arbitrary internet end hosts
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
A Precise and Efficient Evaluation of the Proximity Between Web Clients and Their Local DNS Servers
ATEC '02 Proceedings of the General Track of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
A knowledge plane for the internet
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A routing underlay for overlay networks
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An algebraic approach to practical and scalable overlay network monitoring
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An analysis of internet content delivery systems
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Measuring the evolution of transport protocols in the internet
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Drafting behind Akamai (travelocity-based detouring)
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Improving the reliability of internet paths with one-hop source routing
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
Sting: a TCP-based network measurement tool
USITS'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 2
iPlane: an information plane for distributed services
OSDI '06 Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Querying the internet with PIER
VLDB '03 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 29
IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web
IEEE Pervasive Computing
The measured performance of content distribution networks
Computer Communications
Performance evaluation of redirection schemes in content distribution networks
Computer Communications
Web caching and content distribution: a view from the interior
Computer Communications
Throughput analysis of Non-Renegable Selective Acknowledgments (NR-SACKs) for SCTP
Computer Communications
Comparing DNS resolvers in the wild
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Improving content delivery using provider-aided distance information
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Content delivery and caching from a network provider's perspective
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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DNS to the rescue: discerning content and services in a tangled web
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Maygh: building a CDN from client web browsers
Proceedings of the 8th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems
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To enhance Web browsing experiences, content distribution networks (CDNs) move Web content "closer" to clients by caching copies of Web objects on thousands of servers worldwide. Additionally, to minimize client download times, such systems perform extensive network and server measurements and use them to redirect clients to different servers over short time scales. In this paper, we explore techniques for inferring and exploiting network measurements performed by the largest CDN, Akamai; our objective is to locate and utilize quality Internet paths without performing extensive path probing or monitoring. Our contributions are threefold. First, we conduct a broad measurement study of Akamai's CDN. We probe Akamai's network from 140 PlanetLab (PL) vantage points for two months. We find that Akamai redirection times, while slightly higher than advertised, are sufficiently low to be useful for network control. Second, we empirically show that Akamai redirections overwhelmingly correlate with network latencies on the paths between clients and the Akamai servers. Finally, we illustrate how large-scale overlay networks can exploit Akamai redirections to identify the best detouring nodes for one-hop source routing. Our research shows that in more than 50% of investigated scenarios, it is better to route through the nodes "recommended" by Akamai than to use the direct paths. Because this is not the case for the rest of the scenarios, we develop low-overhead pruning algorithms that avoid Akamai-driven paths when they are not beneficial. Because these Akamai nodes are part of a closed system, we provide a method for mapping Akamai-recommended paths to those in a generic overlay and demonstrate that these one-hop paths indeed outperform direct ones.