Title : 
Proxima: Towards Lightweight and Flexible Anycast Service
         
        
            Author : 
Wang, Guodong ; Chen, Yang ; Shi, Lei ; Lua, Eng Keong ; Deng, Beixing ; Li, Xing
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Anycast paradigm has been widely adopted by Internet application to find nearby resources. The current IP anycast implementation suffers from poor scalability. To overcome that, this paper proposes Proxima, a network coordinates (NC) based application layer infrastructure, which is capable to provide lightweight and flexible anycast service. Proxima accurately chooses the best receiver from a group of candidates according to the Round Trip Time (RTT) for certain application. Our experimental results have demonstrated the excellent performance of Proxima in real sever selection scenario.
         
        
            Keywords : 
IP networks; Internet; IP anycast implementation; Internet application; Proxima; anycast service; application layer infrastructure; network coordinates; round trip time; Application software; Databases; Delay; Information filtering; Information filters; Internet; Network servers; Routing; Scalability; Web server;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
INFOCOM Workshops 2009, IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Rio de Janeiro
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3968-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/INFCOMW.2009.5072180