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NoCDN: scalable content delivery without a middleman

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HotWeb '17: Proceedings of the fifth ACM/IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3132465.3132476

Published: 14 October 2017 Publication History

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Today's websites achieve scalability by either deploying their own platforms with sufficient spare capacity or signing up for services from a content delivery network (CDN). This paper investigates another alternative, where a website directly recruits Internet users to contribute their resources to help deliver the site's content. We show that this alternative, which we call NoCDN, can be implemented securely, transparently to the users accessing the site, and without changes to the content itself.

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Rabinovich MAllman MBrennan SPollack BXu J(2019)Rethinking Home Networks in the Ultrabroadband Era2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)10.1109/ICDCS.2019.00185(1868-1877)Online publication date: Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2019.00185
Raghee Chandran MSajeev G(2018)A Novel Collaborative Caching Framework for Peer-to-Peer Networks2018 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI)10.1109/ICACCI.2018.8554791(988-994)Online publication date: Sep-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACCI.2018.8554791

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HotWeb '17: Proceedings of the fifth ACM/IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies

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DOI:10.1145/3132465

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Rabinovich MAllman MBrennan SPollack BXu J(2019)Rethinking Home Networks in the Ultrabroadband Era2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)10.1109/ICDCS.2019.00185(1868-1877)Online publication date: Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2019.00185
Raghee Chandran MSajeev G(2018)A Novel Collaborative Caching Framework for Peer-to-Peer Networks2018 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI)10.1109/ICACCI.2018.8554791(988-994)Online publication date: Sep-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACCI.2018.8554791

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