Title :
Parallelized file transfer protocol (P-FTP)
Author :
Sohail, Shaleeza ; Jha, Sanjay ; Elgindy, Hossam
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., New South Wales Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Parallelized FTP (P-FTP) approach, attempts to solve the problem of slow downloads of large multimedia files while optimizing the utilization of mirror servers. The approach presented in this paper downloads a single file from multiple mirror servers simultaneously, where each mirror server transfers a portion of the file. P-FTP server calculates the optimum division of the file for efficient transfer. The dynamic monitoring ability of P-FTP maintains the file transfer process at the optimized level no matter how abruptly network and mirror server characteristics change.
Keywords :
Internet; monitoring; multimedia communication; multimedia servers; optimisation; parallel algorithms; transport protocols; P-FTP; dynamic monitoring; mirror servers; multimedia files; optimization policies; parallelized file transfer protocol; slow download problem; Bandwidth; Computer science; Delay; File servers; Internet; Mirrors; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 2003. LCN '03. Proceedings. 28th Annual IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2037-5
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.2003.1243189
