Paper Info
Title
A distributed transportation simplex applied to a Content Distribution Network problem.
Abstract
A Content Distribution Network (CDN) can be defined as an overlay system that replicates copies of contents at multiple points of a network, close to the final users, with the objective of improving data access. CDN technology is widely used for the distribution of large-sized contents, like in video streaming. In this paper we address the problem of finding the best server for each customer request in CDNs, in order to minimize the overall cost. We consider the problem as a transportation problem and a distributed algorithm is proposed to solve it. The algorithm is composed of two independent phases: a distributed heuristic finds an initial solution that may be later improved by a distributed transportation simplex algorithm. It is compared with the sequential version of the transportation simplex and with an auction-based distributed algorithm. Computational experiments carried out on a set of instances adapted from the literature revealed that our distributed approach has a performance similar or better to its sequential counterpart, in spite of not requiring global information about the contents requests. Moreover, the results also showed that the new method outperforms the based-auction distributed algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1051/ro/2014007
RAIRO-OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
CDN,transportation simplex algorithm,distributed algorithm
Journal
48
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0399-0559
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rafaelli de C. Coutinho1201.31
Lúcia Maria de A. Drummond217923.31
Yuri Frota310513.98