This is a course project of CSC 2231(2005 Fall). In this project we propose RED, a general lightweight Internet redirection service that exploits Akamai, and can be easily used by any distributed Internet application. We present the design, discuss the strengths and limitations of RED and evaluate its accuracy. Our preliminary experiments show that the results produced by RED are close to optimal for wide-area distributed applications with few or medium server replicas.

•  RED overview

  RED is an Internet redirection service that can be used by any wide-area Internet application. RED does not require any additional deployment, except a set of DNS servers. To use our redirection service, an Internet application only needs to tell RED its set of deployed replicas. These replicas are not aware of the existence of RED and do not need to support network measurements. RED also provides client transparency by using DNS redirection.

• RED design

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