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Currently, the attempt to choose the "best" content replica server for a client is carried out solely by CDNs. While CDNs have a decent view of load distribution and content placement, they receive little input from the clients themselves. We propose a hybrid solution, subnet assimilation, where the client participates in the server selection process while still leaving the final say to the CDN. Subnet assimilation allows clients to declare their own "network location," different from the actual one, which in turn drives a CDN towards making better decisions. To demonstrate, we introduce Drongo, a client-side system, readily deployable on existing clients without any changes to the CDNs, that employs subnet assimilation to dramatically improve replica server selection. We implemented and extensively evaluated Drongo on a set of 429 clients spread across 177 countries and 6 major CDNs. We show that Drongo affects 69.93% of all clients, prompting better CDN replica choices which reduce the latency of affected requests by up to an order of magnitude and by 24.89% on average across six major providers, with Google's performance improving by 50% in the median case. Our results indicate that client participation holds great opportunities for the advancement of CDN performance.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1145/3143361.3143365 | CoNEXT |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
DNS, CDN, replica server, subnet | Assimilation (phonology),Replica,Computer science,Latency (engineering),Computer network,Client participation,Subnet,Drongo,Distributed computing | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4503-5422-6 | 1 | 0.35 |
References | Authors | |
18 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Marc Anthony Warrior | 1 | 1 | 0.35 |
| Uri Klarman | 2 | 2 | 1.04 |
| Marcel Flores | 3 | 61 | 6.74 |
| Aleksandar Kuzmanovic | 4 | 960 | 71.99 |