Understanding data-center driven content distribution
Vijay Kumar Adhikari, Sourabh Jain, Gyan Ranjan, Zhi-Li Zhang · 2010
Cloud services are radically changing the way we access the information from the Internet and how the "digital goods" are delivered to users. To enable such services, large scale data centers are deployed at various geographical locations, and the contents are replicated at multiple locations to achieve better availability and reliability. However, it is not clear given these multiple data centers how content providers place the content and how a user query is served from the cloud.