Bandwidth control in redundant news server links

Author

Surmacz, Tomasz R.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput., Control & Robotics, Wroclaw Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

25-27 May 2006

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

149

Abstract

Usenet news is a worldwide network of servers providing discussion forums with topics ranging from scientific research to hobbies, entertainment or politics. Redundant links between servers are used to provide fault tolerant operation of individual servers despite the possible network link failures. As the volume of news articles can take up to 200 gigabytes per day, this poses a problem of exhausting the bandwidth of some underlying network connections while other connections are not satisfactorily utilised. The paper shows this problem in more detail and proposes methods of controlling the direction of news data streams while preserving the redundant architecture of server connections

Keywords

Internet; bandwidth allocation; fault tolerance; network servers; telecommunication links; Usenet news; bandwidth control; fault tolerant operation; network connections; network link failures; news data streams; redundant architecture; redundant news server links; server connection; server network; Bandwidth; Discussion forums; Electronic mail; Fault tolerance; File servers; History; Network servers; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Robot control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependability of Computer Systems, 2006. DepCos-RELCOMEX '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Szklarska Poreba

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2565-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEPCOS-RELCOMEX.2006.9

Filename

4024043