Title: CloudEdge: a content delivery system for storage service in cloud environment

Authors: Chi-Huang Chiu, Hsien-Tang Lin, Shyan-Ming Yuan

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tahwa Institute of Technology, Chulin, 307, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan

Abstract: With the trend of cloud computing, more and more web applications move their content to external storage services to reduce the cost of hardware and maintenance. In this paper, a novel architecture called CloudEdge for Content Delivery Network (CDN) with the storage service in cloud computing is introduced. This architecture could not only keep the loosely coupled integration between storage service and web applications but also provide better content manipulation features such as edge network content delivery, caching, secured access control, the variations of content objects generated on demand, and post-process on content objects.

Keywords: cloud computing; CDN; content delivery networks; storage service; distributed file systems; distributed computing; Amazon Web Service; simple storage service; edge network; web applications; access control; caching; storage service; web information systems; ubiquitous computing; web services; content manipulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2010.035536

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2010 Vol.6 No.4, pp.252 - 262

Published online: 30 Sep 2010 *

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