A Prototype Publication Service for the Internet 2 Dsi Project

This thesis presents the development of a prototype publication service for I2-DSI project. The Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) project is developing an open architecture for scalable, robust middleware that will enable wide-area replication services for the research and education communities. In the current phase, the project has a wide-area testbed of six large storage servers, each running a common profile of software that supports demonstration content channels. This paper presents the motivation for source-object replication architectures, the approach to replication adopted by I2-DSI, and our recent efforts to develop a prototype content channel publication service that allows users to dynamically create and manage content channels in I2-DSI without a system administration's intervention. Thus, the channel publication service presented focuses on enhancing the usefulness of the I2-DSI replication service by allowing users to publish and manage their materials in an autonomous fashion.