Arena: Adaptive distributed catalog infrastructure based on relevance networks
Vladimir Zadorozhny, Avigdor Gal · 2005
Wide area applications (WAAs) utilize a WAN infrastructure (e.g., the Internet) to connect a federation of hundreds of servers with tens of thousands of clients. Earlier generations of WAA relied on Web accessible sources and the http protocol for data delivery. Recent developments such as the PlanetLab [8] testbed is now demonstrating an emerging class of data- and compute- intensive wide area applications.