Measuring a commercial content delivery network

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 467-476

  Triukose, Sipat ^a   Wen, Zhihua ^a   Rabinovich, Michael ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Akamai; CDN performance; Content delivery networks

Indexed keywords

AKAMAI; CDN PERFORMANCE; COLOCATIONS; CONTENT DELIVERY; CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK; DATA CENTERS; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMERS; WEB INFRASTRUCTURE;

HARDWARE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84858408005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963405.1963472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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