Over the last decade, we have seen a revolution in connectivity between computers, and a
resulting paradigm shift from centralized to highly distributed systems. With massive scale …

The present invention is a network architecture or frame work that Supports hosting and
content distribution on a truly global scale. The inventive framework allows a Con tent …

Many network problems are based on fundamental relationships involving time. Consider,
for example, the problems of modeling the flow of information through a distributed network …

We study the degradation in network performance caused by the selfish behavior of
noncooperative network users. We consider a directed network in which each edge …

A temporal graph is, informally speaking, a graph that changes with time. When time is
discrete and only the relationships between the participating entities may change and not …

Resource requests made by clients of origin servers in a network are intercepted by reflector
mechanisms and selectively reflected to other servers called repeaters. The reflectors select …

5,287.499 A 2/1994 Nemes.......................... 707/2 the Content Provider's site while one or
more embedded 5,341,477 A 8/1994 Pitkin et al.......... 709/226 objects for the page are …

Width to the server; a measurement of a cost of a connection to the server, and/or a
measurement of a reliability of a 49227417 A* 5/1990 ch11 “? et al …

(21) Appl. No.: 11/980,686 (22) Filed: Oct. 31, 2007 (65) Prior Publication Data US
2008/0215755A1 Sep. 4, 2008 Related US Application Data (60) Continuation of application …

Resource requests made by clients of origin servers in a network are intercepted by reflector
mechanisms and selectively reflected to other servers called repeaters. The reflectors select …