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Efficient Support for P-HTTP in Cluster-Based Web Servers

Mohit Aron Peter Druschel Willy Zwaenepoel
Department of Computer Science
Rice University

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Background
  • HTTP/1.1 persistent connections
  • Content-based Request Distribution
  • Locality-aware request distribution
  • The problem with HTTP/1.1
• Mechanisms for content-based request distribution
  • Relaying front-end
  • Multiple TCP connection handoff
  • Back-end request forwarding
• Policies
  • The LARD strategy
  • The extended HTTP/1.1 LARD strategy
• Performance Analysis of Distribution Mechanisms
• Simulation
  • Simulation Results
• Prototype Cluster Design
  • Overview
  • TCP Connection Handoff
  • Tagging requests
  • Fetching remote requests
• Prototype Cluster Performance
  • Experimental Environment
  • Cluster Performance Results
• Related Work
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
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