Replication for web hosting systems

S Sivasubramanian, M Szymaniak, G Pierre… - ACM Computing …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
Replication is a well-known technique to improve the accessibility of Web sites. It generally
offers reduced client latencies and increases a site's availability. However, applying …

Method and system for managing distributed content and related metadata

SY Sim, DCH Chan, TF Huang, W Chai… - US Patent …, 2007 - Google Patents
The invention provides a method and system for creating an innovative file system that
separates its directory presentation from its data store. The method and system include …

Method and apparatus for managing a plurality of servers in a content delivery network

SY Sim - US Patent 7,181,523, 2007 - Google Patents
Large payload files are selectively partitioned in blocks and the blocks distributed to a
plurality of distribution stations at the edge of the network qualified to have the data. Each …

System and method for assisting virtual machine instantiation and migration

D Agrawal, V Pappas - US Patent 9,130,912, 2015 - Google Patents
A system and method for instantiation of a virtual machine (VM) in a datacenter includes
providing a network appliance in a location for listening to management information traffic …

Method and apparatus for automatically adapting a node in a network

SY Sim, DC Chan - US Patent 7,047,287, 2006 - Google Patents
Large payload files are selectively partitioned in blocks and the blocks distributed to a
plurality of distribution stations at the edge of the network qualified to have the data. Each …

Method and apparatus for initializing a new node in a network

SY Sim, DC Chan - US Patent 6,857,012, 2005 - Google Patents
US6857012B2 - Method and apparatus for initializing a new node in a network - Google
Patents US6857012B2 - Method and apparatus for initializing a new node in a network …

Method and apparatus for distributing large payload file to a plurality of storage devices in a network

SY Sim - US Patent 7,165,095, 2007 - Google Patents
US7165095B2 - Method and apparatus for distributing large payload file to a plurality of
storage devices in a network - Google Patents US7165095B2 - Method and apparatus for …

Informed content delivery across adaptive overlay networks

J Byers, J Considine, M Mitzenmacher… - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
Overlay networks have emerged as a powerful and highly flexible method for delivering
content. We study how to optimize throughput of large transfers across richly connected …

Detecting shared congestion of flows via end-to-end measurement

D Rubenstein, J Kurose… - IEEE/ACM Transactions On …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current Internet congestion control protocols operate independently on a per-flow basis.
Recent work has demonstrated that cooperative congestion control strategies between flows …

System and method for achieving hardware acceleration for asymmetric flow connections

CAI Hao, Q Lu - US Patent 10,375,155, 2019 - Google Patents
Performance of connection flow management between a hardware-based network interface
and a software module of a network traffic management device is disclosed. A flow …