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An Analysis of Internet Content Delivery Systems

Abstract: 

In the span of only a few years, the Internet has experienced an astronomical increase in the use of specialized content delivery systems, such as content delivery networks and peer-to-peer file sharing systems. Therefore, an understanding of content delivery on the Internet now requires a detailed understanding of how these systems are used in practice.

This paper examines content delivery from the point of view of four content delivery systems: HTTP web traffic, the Akamai content delivery network, and Kazaa and Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing traffic. We collected a trace of all incoming and outgoing network traffic at the University of Washington, a large university with over 60,000 students, faculty, and staff. From this trace, we isolated and characterized traffic belonging to each of these four delivery classes. Our results (1) quantify the rapidly increasing importance of new content delivery systems, particularly peer-to-peer networks, (2) characterize the behavior of these systems from the perspectives of clients, objects, and servers, and (3) derive implications for caching in these systems.

Stefan Saroiu, University of Washington

Krishna P. Gummadi, University of Washington

Richard J. Dunn, University of Washington

Henry M. Levy, University of Washington

BibTeX
@inproceedings {270409,
author = {Stefan Saroiu and Krishna P. Gummadi and Richard J. Dunn and Henry M. Levy},
title = {An Analysis of Internet Content Delivery Systems},
booktitle = {5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 02)},
year = {2002},
address = {Boston, MA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-02/analysis-internet-content-delivery-systems},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec,
}
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