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A Versatile Anycast Framework for Distributed Servers
Author: Willem van Duijn
Source: Masters thesis, Vrije Universiteit, February 2008.
Abstract
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The use of a single server in client-service based services imposes
limitations in sustainable load and availability guarantees. Within a
distributed server, clients are distributed over multiple servers,
disseminating the load. However, traditional mechanisms to distribute
clients are seriously limited in functionality or scalability, and
impose restrictions on the application. Versatile Anycast is a new
mechanism that offers great flexibility, but is difficult to use.
This thesis discusses the requirements for a versatile framework,
allowing one to build transparent distributed servers without
additional complexity over traditional, single-node
servers. Additionally, the framework allows one to handover a client
in mid-connection, allowing a wide range of new applications. The
proposed framework has been implemented, and an example distributed
server build using the framework has been successfully deployed on
Grid'5000, an experimental grid platform.
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Bibtex Entry
@MastersThesis{vanduijn2008,
author = {Willem van Duijn},
title = {A Versatile Anycast Framework for Distributed Servers},
school = {Vrije Universiteit},
address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
year = {2008},
month = feb
}
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