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Locating CDN edge servers with HTTP responses

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SIGCOMM '22: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '22 Poster and Demo Sessions

Pages 19 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/3546037.3546051

Published: 25 October 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Determining the physical locations of CDN Points of Presence (PoPs) is fundamental to understanding and diagnosing CDN services. Yet, the popular deployment of IP Anycast in CDNs has rendered existing geolocation tools unreliable. To fill this gap, we present an HTTP-based solution that leverages subtle geographic hints in HTTP responses to locate CDN PoPs at the city-level granularity. The evaluation shows that our technique achieves over 90% accuracy with an average error distance of less than 40 km.

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Madeley JPhokeer ASiddiqui ABenson T(2024)Towards Measuring Content LocalityProceedings of the 2024 Applied Networking Research Workshop10.1145/3673422.3674895(88-90)Online publication date: 23-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3673422.3674895
Zhou MChen YLin SWang XLiu BDing A(2024)Dissecting the Applicability of HTTP/3 in Content Delivery Networks2024 IEEE 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)10.1109/ICDCS60910.2024.00091(936-946)Online publication date: 23-Jul-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS60910.2024.00091
Wang CLiu YHuang P(2022)Jujuby: Design and Deployment of a Crawler for Twitch CDN MappingProceedings of the 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference10.1145/3570748.3570755(44-52)Online publication date: 19-Dec-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3570748.3570755

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Locating CDN edge servers with HTTP responses
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network measurement

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Madeley JPhokeer ASiddiqui ABenson T(2024)Towards Measuring Content LocalityProceedings of the 2024 Applied Networking Research Workshop10.1145/3673422.3674895(88-90)Online publication date: 23-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3673422.3674895
Zhou MChen YLin SWang XLiu BDing A(2024)Dissecting the Applicability of HTTP/3 in Content Delivery Networks2024 IEEE 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)10.1109/ICDCS60910.2024.00091(936-946)Online publication date: 23-Jul-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS60910.2024.00091
Wang CLiu YHuang P(2022)Jujuby: Design and Deployment of a Crawler for Twitch CDN MappingProceedings of the 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference10.1145/3570748.3570755(44-52)Online publication date: 19-Dec-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3570748.3570755

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