Current research trends in internet servers
Krishna Kant, Prasant Mohapatra · ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review · 2001
Introduction The article "Scalable Internet Servers: Issues and Challenges" published in PAWS-2000 proceedings [1] identified eleven different areas in Internet Servers that require significant research efforts (available at http://kkant.ccwebhost.com/PAWS2000). The main motivation was to spur more interest and research into the Internet server. In this section we add to this list by mentioning a number of research issues on the two new topics encompassed by PAWS-2001, namely peer to peer computing and wireless Internet access. On the former topic, we also describe some of our recent work. We also revisit some of the issues mentioned in [1] and briefly describe some of the work that we have accomplished in these area. 2 Peer to Peer Networking Popularized by Napster and Gnutella file sharing solutions, peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has suddenly emerged at the forefront of Internet computing. The basic notion of cooperative computing and resource sharing has been around for quite some