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SØREN Server Selection Project
Project Overview
Timely delivery of information from content servers to clients is now clearly one of the primary roles of ubiquitous networking. As the number of people seeking information increases, scalability of information delivery services becomes an important issue. Server replication is one common technique used by service providers to accommodate increasing demands. Effective server replication, however, demands appropriate server selection approaches, without which the full benefits of replication are not realized. The focus of the SØREN Server Selection Project is the design and evaluation of server selection approaches for wide-area services, particularly in the context of future networking and service environments.The SØREN project is supported by Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, NSF and DARPA.
Why SØREN? No, it isn't an acronym (yet). Søren Kierkegaard, a 19th century Danish philosopher, is regarded as the "father of existentialism". In existentialism, the individual bears ultimate responsibility for his/her actions. Server selection involves client choices that affect client-perceived performance, hence the analogy. For more on Søren Kierkegaard, see The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
People
Faculty and Staff: Students: Alumni:- Bobby Bhattacharjee (U. of Maryland)
- Zongming Fei (U. of Kentucky)
- Fang Hao (Bell Labs)
Publications
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Multipoint-to-point session fairness in the Internet.
P. Karbhari, E. Zegura and M. Ammar
Submitted to IEEE Infocom 2002,
Paper: ps,pdf
Selecting among replicated rate-adaptive web servers.
Z. Fei, M. Ammar and E. Zegura
Submitted to IEEE Infocom 2001,
Georgia Tech technical report GIT-CC-00-18.
Paper: ps,pdf
Supporting server selection in differentiated services networks.
F. Hao, E. Zegura and M. Ammar
Submitted to IEEE Infocom 2001,
Georgia Tech technical report GIT-CC-00-xx.
Paper: ps,pdf
Application-layer anycasting: a server selection architecture and use in
a replicated web service.
E. Zegura, M. Ammar, Z. Fei, and S. Bhattarcharjee
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 2000, p. 455-466.
Paper: ps,pdf
Optimal allocation of clients to replicated multicast servers.
Z. Fei, M. Ammar and E. Zegura
Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 1999, October 1999.
Paper: ps,pdf
A novel server selection technique for improving the response time of
a replicated service.
Z. Fei, S. Bhattacharjee, E. Zegura and M. Ammar
Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 1998, San Francisco, CA, March/April 1998.
Paper: ps,pdf
Application-layer anycasting.
S. Bhattacharjee, M. Ammar, E. Zegura, V. Shah and Z. Fei,
Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 1997, Kobe, Japan, March 1997.
Paper: ps,pdf