A dual-direction technique for fast file downloads with dynamic load balancing in the Cloud

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1116-1130

  Mohamed, Nader ^a   Al Jaroodi, Jameela ^a   Eid, Abdulla ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Distributed FTP; Heterogeneous systems; Load balancing; Replicated data servers

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED FTP; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; INTERNET APPLICATION; NET WORK UTILIZATION; OPERATIONAL PROPERTIES; REPLICATED DATA;

CLOUD COMPUTING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INTERNET; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84878680333     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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