Princeton S* Network Systems

Most of my posts about CoralCDN to date have discussed techniques to make the system more robust; now I discuss what it got wrong.  While nice, many of these optimizations were in fact moot: CoralCDN’s design is ill-suited for its current deployment and usage.

Let us frame this argument by first considering some usage statistics from CoralCDN’s deployment.  The available aggregate data from 167 of the ~250 operating CoralCDN nodes during one recent, randomly-chosen day (January 20, 2009) shows that these nodes received a total of 9.74M requests … Continue Reading

[Today we'll be having a guest post by Anirudh Badam, a PhD student in the larger Network Systems Group at Princeton, related to systems research for developing regions.  The work he'll be talking about was recently named one of Technology Review's Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2009.  -- Mike]

To provide Internet connectivity in the developing world is a daunting task, with problems pertaining to a high cost of bandwidth, ill-provisioned equipment and power, scarcity of on-site expertise, and adverse environmental conditions. Most common way to offset bandwidth cost/consumption is to deploy high-performance web proxy … Continue Reading