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The Best of Both Worlds High Availability CDN Routing Without Compromising Control

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Author(s):
Zhu, Jiangchen ; Vermeulen, Kevin ; Cunha, Italo ; Katz-Bassett, Ethan ; Calder, Matt
Total Authors: 5
Document type: Journal article
Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2022 22ND ACM INTERNET MEASUREMENT CONFERENCE, IMC 2022; v. N/A, p. 9-pg., 2022-01-01.
Abstract

Content delivery networks (CDNs) provide fast service to clients by replicating content at geographically distributed sites. Most CDNs route clients to a particular site using anycast or unicast with DNS-based redirection. We analyze anycast and unicast and explain why neither of them provides both precise control of user-to-site mapping and high availability in the face of failures, two fundamental goals of CDNs. Anycast compromises control (and hence performance), and unicast compromises availability. We then present new hybrid techniques and demonstrate via experiments on the real Internet that these techniques provide both a high level of traffic control and fast failover following site failures. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 20/05192-9 - Interdomain routing characterization and modeling for traffic engineering and security
Grantee:Italo Fernando Scotá Cunha
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants