LOCATION AWARE INTERNET

Approaching Location Aware Internet

Distributed Internet applications, the most famous being the web, are heavily depended on bandwidth and latency of their Internet connectivity. Low bandwidth or high latency can significantly decrease the performance of an application, irritate the user and increase failure rates of the application amongst others. The problem deteriorates in applications such as P2P and other highly changing and dynamic distributed database systems.

Location Aware Internet involves the ability of selecting the nearest server from a given group of servers able to offer a particular service. Nearness refers to network distance and not to geographical/physical proximity. Facilitation of Location Aware Internet in Internet applications like Web and distributed systems can reduce the time spent in networking functions, to more than one order of magnitute.

This project is dedicated to proposing state-of-the-art approaches for Location Aware Internet. The two suggested approaches, IPMicra and HiMicra, are feasible for large-scale Internet-based applications, and have moderate hardware and network requirements. Both approaches improve over time, optimizing their hierarchy-based structure for faster and more accurate detections of the nearest replicas.

Both IPMicra and HiMicra are described in detail in the papers.

Partners:

The project is a collaboration between Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus and L3S Research Center, University of Hannover.