Dr. Darrell Long

Managing flash crowds on the Internet

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation in Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)

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Abstract

A flash crowd is a surge in traffic to a particular Web site that causes the site to be virtually unreachable. We present a model of flash crowd events and evaluate the performance of various multi-level caching techniques suitable for managing these events. By using well-dispersed caches and with judicious choice of replacement algorithms we show reductions in client response times by as much as a factor of 25. We also show that these caches eliminate the server and network hot spots by distributing the load over the entire network.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{ari-mascots03,
  author       = {Ismail Ari and Bo Hong and Ethan L. Miller and Scott A. Brandt and Darrell D. E. Long},
  title        = {Managing Flash Crowds on the Internet},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation in Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)},
  organization = {IEEE},
  address      = {Orlando},
  pages        = {246--249},
  month        = oct,
  year         = {2003}
}
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