Quantifying the benefits of joint content and network routing

Vytautas Valancius, Bharath Ravi, Nick Feamster, Alex C. Snoeren

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Abstract

Online service providers aim to provide good performance for an increasingly diverse set of applications and services. One of the most effective ways to improve service performance is to replicate the service closer to the end users. Replication alone, however, has its limits: while operators can replicate static content, wide-scale replication of dynamic content is not always feasible or cost effective. To improve the latency of such services many operators turn to Internet traffic engineering. In this paper, we study the benefits of performing replica-to-end-user mappings in conjunction with active Internet traffic engineering. We present the design of PECAN, a system that controls both the selection of replicas ("content routing") and the routes between the clients and their associated replicas ("network routing"). We emulate a replicated service that can perform both content and network routing by deploying PECAN on a distributed testbed. In our testbed, we see that jointly performing content and network routing can reduce round-trip latency by 4.3% on average over performing content routing alone (potentially reducing service response times by tens of milliseconds or more) and that most of these gains can be realized with no more than five alternate routes at each replica.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGMETRICS 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Pages243-254
Number of pages12
Edition1 SPEC. ISS.
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Duration: Jun 17 2013Jun 21 2013

Publication series

NamePerformance Evaluation Review
Number1 SPEC. ISS.
Volume41
ISSN (Print)0163-5999

Other

Other2013 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period6/17/136/21/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • CDN
  • Wide-area routing

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