Global Utilities

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Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering

Topic:   HTTP(P2P): A transaction based (HTTP) peer-to-peer protocol for the dissemination of web-objects in congested networks
Speaker:   Mr. Robert Mattson, PhD Student, Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering
Date:   16-08-2004
Time:   3:00 PM
Venue:   PW 101
Abstract:   Highly popular websites can suffer classical congestion collapse because of the ability of outgoing 'bursty' data to congest the server side link. Using the well known and recognized network simulator ns we look at the effect that this congestion collapse has on user perceived performance(UPP) of a simulated website. We developed a protocol overlay for HTTP/1.1 and a complementary distribution infrastructure to alleviate the effects of this congestion. Our Protocol HTTP(P2P), shows promise for increasing the maximum load of websites during times of high and very high website load and link contention. In our simulated environment, HTTP(P2P) significantly decreases the time required for users to download the web page they request. The protocol also distributes the redirected traffic over the network to reduce secondary transient network congestion.
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