With the growth of data volumes and variety of Internet applications, data centers (DCs) have
become an efficient and promising infrastructure for supporting data storage, and providing …

CDNs improve network performance and offer fast and reliable applications and services by
distributing content to cache servers located close to users. The Web's growth has …

Distributed Systems Page 1 DS 2006; Ch1 16-Jan-06 Timo Alanko, 2006 1 Distributed
Systems Spring 2006 Timo Alanko 16-Jan-06 2 Sources of material • Tanenbaum, van …

This paper has the following ambitious goal: to convince the reader that content caching is
an exciting research topic for the future communication systems and networks. Caching has …

Chain replication is a new approach to coordinating clusters of fail-stop storage servers. The
approach is intended for supporting large-scale storage services that exhibit high throughput …

Mobile cloud computing is emerging as a main ubiquitous computing platform to provide rich
cloud resources for various applications of mobile devices. Although most existing studies in …

Insight and perspectives for content delivery networks Page 1 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE
ACM January 2006/Vol. 49, No. 1 101 By George Pallis and Athena Vakali Striking a balance …

Mobile edge computing is emerging as a novel ubiquitous computing platform to overcome
the limit resources of mobile devices and bandwidth bottleneck of the core network in mobile …

In this article, we will formalize the method of dual fitting and the idea of factor-revealing LP.
This combination is used to design and analyze two greedy algorithms for the metric …

We present a simple and natural greedy algorithm for the metric uncapacitated facility
location problem achieving an approximation guarantee of 1.61. We use this algorithm to …