Globule: a collaborative content delivery network

  • Authors:
  • G. Pierre;M. van Steen

  • Affiliations:
  • Comput. Syst. Group, Vrije Univ., Amsterdam;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present Globule, a collaborative content delivery network developed by our research group. Globule is composed of Web servers that cooperate across a wide area network to provide performance and availability guarantees to the sites they host. We discuss the issues involved in developing and setting up a large-scale collaborative CDN and provide solutions for many of its unique problems