Abstract
Replicating Web documents at a worldwide scale can help reducing user-perceived
latency and wide-area network traffic. This paper presents the preliminary design
of Globule, a platform which automates all aspects of such replication: serverto-
server peering negotiation, creation and destruction of replicas, selection of
the most appropriate replication strategies on a per-document basis, consistency
management and transparent redirection of clients to replicas. To facilitate the
transition from a non-replicated server to a replicated one, we designed Globule as
a module for the Apache Web server. Therefore, converting normal Web documents
should require no more than compiling a new module into Apache and editing a
configuration file.
latency and wide-area network traffic. This paper presents the preliminary design
of Globule, a platform which automates all aspects of such replication: serverto-
server peering negotiation, creation and destruction of replicas, selection of
the most appropriate replication strategies on a per-document basis, consistency
management and transparent redirection of clients to replicas. To facilitate the
transition from a non-replicated server to a replicated one, we designed Globule as
a module for the Apache Web server. Therefore, converting normal Web documents
should require no more than compiling a new module into Apache and editing a
configuration file.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Amsterdam |
| Publisher | Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2001 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Name | Internal Report |
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| Publisher | Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science |
| No. | IR-483 |
Keywords
- Access pattern
- Content distribution network
- Dynamic document
- Replication protocol
- Apache server