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Data Replication at Web Proxies in Content Distribution Network

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Web Technologies and Applications (APWeb 2003)

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This paper investigates the problem of optimally replicating objects at the candidate proxies in content distribution network. In our model, each proxy in the set of candidates has a finite storage capacity for replicating objects and charges fee for use. The optimization problem is to find a set of proxies from candidates set for replicating objects at them such that the total access cost is minimized, subject to the constraints that the objects placed at a proxy should not exceed the storage capacity of the proxy and the total fees charged by the proxies should not exceed a pre-specified budget. We formulate this problem as a combinational optimization problem and show that this optimization problem is NP complete. We propose two heuristics and evaluate them by simulation. The simulation results show that these two heuristics could significantly reduce the access cost.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.C

    Xuanping Zhang, Xiaopeng Tan & Yonghu Zhu

  2. The High Speed Wire Rod Mill, MaAnShan IRON & STEEL Co. LTD, P.R.C

    Weidong Wang

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  1. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou  & Maria E. Orlowska  & 

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

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Zhang, X., Wang, W., Tan, X., Zhu, Y. (2003). Data Replication at Web Proxies in Content Distribution Network. In: Zhou, X., Orlowska, M.E., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2642. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36901-5_56

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