Adapting to network and client variability via on-demand dynamic distillation
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
The performance of a service for network-aware applications
SPDT '98 Proceedings of the SIGMETRICS symposium on Parallel and distributed tools
An active service framework and its application to real-time multimedia transcoding
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
The end-to-end effects of Internet path selection
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Integrating user-perceived quality into Web server design
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Dynamic handoff of multimedia streams
NOSSDAV '01 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Grid Information Services for Distributed Resource Sharing
HPDC '01 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
The Architecture of the Remos System
HPDC '01 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Evaluation of a Resource Selection Mechanism for Complex Network Services
HPDC '01 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
SPAND: shared passive network performance discovery
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
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Active services are application-specified programs that are executed inside the network. The location where the active service is executed plays an important role. The dynamic behavior of networks requires that the selection of the most suitable location to instantiate a service is done at run time. To dynamically place an active service, information about the network (topology, bandwidth) and the application (type of the service) is necessary. This paper describes a method to dynamically search for available active service locations in the Internet. To be deployed in the current Internet, a solution is required to scale well to large networks, and to demand as little changes to the Internet as possible, especially not at lower network layers. Finally, the solution must be flexible and customizable to take application requirements into account. The proposed solution makes use of the routing path between two end systems. Active service locations that are located close to the routing path are then found via DNS queries. The evaluation shows that the application pays an overhead at start up time. For applications that can tolerate a start up delay, we show with three experiments using a video and an image application that the quality of the application can be increased by a dynamic placement of active services.