Objective Employing network storage to replicate valuable content in close proximity to the end-users has been a successful alternative to keep on adding more network bandwidth or enforcing complex quality of service mechanisms. As a result, the Internet has been seeded by large amounts of storage capacity that now serve as a common substrate for the operation of a diverse set of content delivery methods.The uncoordinated allocation of storage by multiple authorities, combined with the latest user trend to exchange voluminous information documents (e.g. music and video files, which by latest reports amount to well above of 75% of all Internet traffic), have resulted in a rather limited emphasis on exploiting the new resource up to its full potential, and have set the stage for what appears to be a new contention - this time for storage capacity rather than bandwidth. To this end, the goal of the proposed research is to develop and investigate efficient new ways to best use the deployed storage resource.The proposed course for achieving that, is by first studying the fundamental aspects of storage-enabled content dissemination in a unified manner - as these issues are common to all content dissemination applications - and then return to mapping the derived results back to the specific applications, in a per-application manner. A new paradigm will be developed for this purpose - called the content migration paradigm - under which, content is not tied to its original emergence point (origin server) and possibly other fixed replication points (mirrors, CDN servers), but is allowed to migrate adaptively to any potential distributor laying on the path towards the demand points (clients), making efficient use of the storage resource that lies on its way. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicstopology Keywords content distribution networks distributed systems overlay networks peer-to-peer computing Programme(s) FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 Topic(s) MOBILITY-2.2 - Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowships (OIF) Call for proposal FP6-2002-MOBILITY-6 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme OIF - Marie Curie actions-Outgoing International Fellowships Coordinator NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS EU contribution No data Address 6 CHRISTOU LADA STR. ATHENS Greece See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BOSTON UNIVERSITY United States EU contribution No data Address 111 Cummington St., Boston BOSTON See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
