Title

A Fast Connection-Time Redirection Mechanism for Internet Application Scalability

Author Info

Michael Haungs, University of California - DavisFollow
Raju Pandey, University of California - Davis
Earl Barr, University of California - Davis
J. Fritz Barnes, University of California - Davis

Recommended Citation

Postprint version. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, High Performance Computing - HiPC 2002, Volume 2552, December 18, 2002, pages 209-218.

NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Michael Haungs was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36265-7_20.

Abstract

Applications that are distributed, fault tolerant, or perform dynamic load balancing rely on redirection techniques, such as network address translation (NAT), DNS request routing, or middleware to handle Internet scale loads. In this paper, we describe a new connection redirection mechanism that allows applications to change end-points of communication channels. The mechanism supports redirections across LANs and WANs and is application-independent. Further, it does not introduce any central bottlenecks. We have implemented the redirection mechanism using a novel end-point control session layer. The performance results show that the overhead of the mechanism is minimal. Further, Internet applications built using this mechanism scale better than those built using HTTP redirection.

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Copyright

2002 Springer.

Publisher statement

Presented at the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2002): Bangalore, India, December 18-21, 2002.