The focus will be on content distribution networks and co-location
services. Most of that work is going on in industry right now,
so we'll mostly focus on what's out there and reverse engineering
how it works. This should provide a nice contrast to all that
academic stuff we are reading in 561.
tom
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April 12, Sumit Roy, CDMA: how it really works
April 19, TRIAD
Cheriton et al., TRIAD: a Scalable Deployable NAT-based
Internet Architecture. http://dsg.stanford.edu/triad.html
April 26, Internet TV
McCanne et al., Fast Forward Broadcast Overlay Architecture,
http://www.ffnet.com/pdfs/boa-whitepaper.pdf
May 3, Akamai
Poe, Akamai Dishes It Out,
http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/people/story?id=387e33d00
Akamai White Papers,
http://www.akamai.com/service/{freeflow,streaming,network}.html
May 10 Inktomi
What Distribution Scalability Means for Internet Business
http://www.inktomi.com/products/network/traffic/tech/KPMG_white_paper.pdf
May 17 The Internap Virtual ISP
White Papers, http://www.internap.com/{how,why,who,how_we}.htm
May 24
Stemm et al., A Network Measurement Architecture for Adaptive Applications
http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2000/papers/708.ps
May 31
Jamin et al., On the Placement of Internet Instrumentation
http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2000/papers/586.ps