GridJet: An underlying data-transporting protocol for accelerating Web communications

  • Authors:
  • Frank Zhigang Wang;Na Helian;Sining Wu;Yuhui Deng;Vineet Khare;Michael Parker

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Grid Computing, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom;Centre for Grid Computing, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom;Centre for Grid Computing, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom;Centre for Grid Computing, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom;Centre for Grid Computing, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom;Centre for Grid Computing, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The World-Wide Web provides us with a distributed, hyperlinked document repository. Users attempting to access and share these hyperlinked documents via conventional HTTP and FTP often encounter long waits and frustration. To provide ''local-like'' access, a WAN/Grid-optimized protocol known as ''GridJet'' was incorporated into the Firefox Web browser that utilizes a wide range of technologies including the one of paralleling the remote file access. No change in the way of using software is required since the multi-streamed GridJet protocol remains fully compatible with existing IP infrastructures. Peer-to-peer clustered Web servers are also constructed to remove the scalability limitations and management problems associated with individual Web servers. Our recent progress includes a real-world test that Web applications over the GridJet protocol beats those over the classic ones by as much as five times where the transfer distance is over 10000km.