A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed infrastructure to deliver digital contents to
end users with high performance. CDNs are critical to provide and protect the availability of …

Large content providers build points of presence around the world, each connected to tens
or hundreds of networks. Ideally, this connectivity lets providers better serve users, but …

Content delivery networks must balance a number of trade-offs when deciding how to direct
a client to a CDN server. Whereas DNS-based redirection requires a complex global traffic …

Low-latency live streaming has imposed stringent latency requirements on video transport
networks. In this paper we report on the design and operation of the Alibaba low-latency …

The Internet suffers from well-known performance, reliability, and security problems.
However, proposed improvements have seen little adoption due to the difficulties of Internet …

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be a major threat on the Internet
today. DDoS attacks overwhelm target services with requests or other traffic, causing …

Internet anycast depends on inter-domain routing to direct clients to their" closest" sites.
Using data collected from a root DNS server for over a year (400M+ queries/day from 100+ …

This is a survey article that explores six Cloud-based deployment archetypes for Cloud
applications and the tradeoffs between them to achieve high availability, low end-user …

Content delivery networks (CDNs) are critical for delivering high performance Internet
services. Using worldwide deployments of front-ends, CDNs can direct users to the front-end …

Recent studies show that an end system's traffic may reach a distant anycast site within a
global IP anycast system, resulting in high latency. To address this issue, some private and …