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Swift-WAN: System support for distributed dynamic content Web services
English title
Swift-WAN: System support for distributed dynamic content Web services
Applicant
Pedone Fernando
Number
121931
Funding scheme
Project funding
Research institution
Istituto di sistemi informatici (SYS) Facoltà di scienze informatiche
Institution of higher education
Università della Svizzera italiana - USI
Main discipline
Information Technology
Start/End
01.02.2009 - 31.01.2011
Approved amount
95'770.00
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Keywords (8)
large-scale distributed systems; group communication; data replication; web caching; database replication; large-scale systems; disaster recovery; fault tolerance
Lay Summary (English)
Lead
Lay summary
Many current web services are based on dynamic content. Users connect to a web site and receive customized information, for example, depending on the request parameters as well as the users’ preferences and access patterns. Typically, a dynamic content web site is located at a single geographic site and the information is stored in a database. There is a need to scale these systems and increase their availability using replication across a geographically-distributed wide-area network. In such a replicated system, requests execute on “nearby” replicas, thereby avoiding long roundtrip delays, and distributing the load over the replicas. Moreover, if the nearby site becomes inaccessible, clients are transparently switched to other replicas. The goal of Swift is to design and implement a scalable and highly-available database replication middleware to be used as the underlying infrastructure of modern dynamic content web services.
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Last update: 21.02.2013
Responsible applicant and co-applicants
Name
Institute
Pedone Fernando
Computer Systems Institute (SYS) Università della Svizzera italiana
Zwaenepoel Willy
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies The University of Sydney
Employees
Name
Institute
Jalili Marandi Parisa
Istituto del Software (SI) Facoltà di scienze informatiche
Associated projects
Number
Title
Start
Funding scheme
134553
Swift-WAN2: Performance and dependability for data center applications
01.04.2011
Project funding
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