In tree-based multicast systems, a relatively small number of interior nodes carry the load of
forwarding multicast messages. This works well when the interior nodes are highly …

There has been an increasing deployment of content distribution networks (CDNs) that offer
hosting services to Web content providers. CDNs deploy a set of servers distributed …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing accounts for an astonishing volume of current Internet traffic.
This paper probes deeply into modern P2P file sharing systems and the forces that drive …

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 …

Recently, the Internet has witnessed the emergence of content distribution networks (CDNs).
In this paper, we study the problem of optimally replicating objects in CDN servers. In our …

This paper presents Scribe, a large-scale event notification infrastructure for topic-based
publish-subscribe applications. Scribe supports large numbers of topics, with a …

Today, even a moderately sized corporate intranet contains multiple firewalls and routers,
which are all used to enforce various aspects of the global corporate security policy …

We present what we believe to be the first thorough characterization of live streaming media
content delivered over the Internet. Our characterization of over 3.5 million requests …

Evaluating the resiliency of stateful Internet services to significant workload spikes and data
hotspots requires realistic workload traces that are usually very difficult to obtain. A popular …

Interactive real-time streaming applications such as audio-video conferencing, online
gaming and app streaming, place stringent requirements on the network in terms of delay …