Content Distribution

[This page was not update during the previous half year although I still keep an eye on some of the topics.]

Scalability is the main and toughest foe for system to grow large. What's the solution? --Distribution! P2P file sharing, web-caching... all these "hot" issues can be viewed as content distribution. The concept of "Content" may also be extened to any resources (including services). This means lots of things: content identification, content synchronization (replacement), content allocation, server placement... My current interests are placement, allocation and balance of the distributed content.

Currently Involved Project:

P2P-like Content Distribution Simulator

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Planet-Lab

Related research projects in other labs:

MSR System&Network Group Farsite
Free Net
ISI Computer Network Division YOID
at ISI
Ocean Store at UC Berkeley

Stanford Peers Many concepts in p2p are from distributed database.
Pastry from Rice University
Chord of MIT -- Some friends in the area suggested me to see more in the easten coast.:)
IPTPS02
Stanford Identiscape Their main purpose is not on content distribution, they are working on identification of mobile people. Anyway, some good ideas on p2p-like network in this group
Joltage A business solution on Ad-hoc wireless network
Ingrid This project focuses on information discovery
Grid at MIT PDOS Group
Iceberg Project at UC Berkeley I think this project focuses on the free communication between different kinds of devices more. Anyway, some of the basic mechanisms are very similar.
UND's self organized network (Biology View)
a student's summary on some paper a student's summary on some paper

Conference:

C. Cameron, S. H. Low and D. X. Wei, High density model for server allocation and placement, ACM Sigmetrics, Marina del Rey, CA, June 2002