LinuxDirector: A connection director for scalable internet services

Active connection management in Internet services

We propose a new connection management architecture for clustered Internet services called Active Connection Management (ACM) to improve the availability, quality of service, and manageability of Internet services. ACM extends the API of load-balancing switches to include application-level primitives. These primitives enable Internet services to manage loadbalancing switches dynamically to cont...

A Scalable Architecture for Responsive Auction Services Over the Internet

In this Report we discuss the design and implementation of a distributed architecture we have developed in order to support “responsive” (i.e., timely and available) auction services over the Internet. Specifically, our architecture can support auction services whose timing requirements fall within the range of a few seconds. In addition, this architecture can adapt timely to possible variation...

System support for scalable and fault tolerant Internet services

Over the past few years, we have seen the proliferation of Internet-based services ranging from search engines and map services to video-on-demand servers. All of these kinds of services need to be able to provide guarantees of availability and scalability to their users. With millions of users on the Internet today, these services must have the capacity to handle a large number of clients and ...

Migratory TCP: Highly Available Internet Services Using Connection Migration

A Configurable Internet Browser for Unreliable Internet Connection

In this paper, we introduce a configurable Internet browser for accessing Internet using networks with low-quality connection. The goal is to build user-configurable Internet browser from existing software. We propose a new model for accessing Internet that allows a user to keep accessing the Internet even in very low speed and/or with temporary disconnection. In this model, we integrate concep...