Master thesis presentation on August 24th (Thursday), 2006, at 15:00

Exjobb seminar at KTH/IMIT - Tslab

Time and Date: August 24th (Thursday), 2006, at 15:00
Place: Gemini (Castor), floor 8, Forum, Kista

Ant: A Distributed Data Storage And Delivery System Aware of the Underlying Topology

Student: Raúl Jiménez
The project has been performed at TSLab

Abstract

The distribution of rich digital contents is called to be the next revolution on the Internet. Since broadband connections are available for low prices, there is a great market to exploit.

Nowadays content distribution is performed by P2P --peer-to-peer-- systems whose contents are mostly copyright protected. Nevertheless, P2P systems seem to be the way content providers will be able to distribute rich media files universally at low cost, due to the scalability of P2P that client/server model cannot provide anymore.

On the other hand, current P2P systems increase the costs for ISPs --Internet Service Providers-- because they are not aware of the underlying topology and hence consume a large amount of inter-ISP bandwidth.

The goal of this Master Thesis is to design a distributed data storage and delivery system which faces the former issues. It provides a topologically aware lookup service which prioritize local transfers and a cache system which allows clients to transfer data from the local network instead of getting it from the Internet.

An implementation of the lookup service has been carried out. This will permit proving the feasibility of such a system as well as detecting scalability shortcomings.

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Más información: Ant Protocol
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