Obsolete:pCDN: Peer-assisted Content Distribution Network

This project employs the peer-to-peer (P2P) computing paradigm in designing large-scale content distribution systems. The P2P paradigm provides: (i) improved scalability by aggregating resource contributions from peers (end user machines) and reducing the reliance on centralized servers, (ii) reduced cost by utilizing already-deployed resources and eliminating the need for expensive infrastructure, and (iii) rapid deployability by performing all processing at the end systems.

Major content distribution networks, such as Akamai, consider the P2P paradigm as a real threat for their content distribution business. This is because the P2P paradigm may achieve similar services with a fraction of the cost. However, there are several research challenges that need to be addressed to enable the P2P paradigm to achieve this potential. In this research, we tackle these research challenges. Our goal is to develop a fully functional and reliable P2P content distribution system, which we call pCDN. Several steps have been made towards that goal. In fact, we already have a beta version of pCDN 1.0.

pCDN offers

Progress

• Progress Report and Weekly Meeting Minutes
• Scrum Backlog
• Feature List
• Test Plan
• Restructuring
• Geo-Fencing

Software

• Release
• Installation
• FAQ: Please check the FAQ page before submitting a bug report.
• Howto Report a Bug
• Quality Assurance
• Browse Source code

Documents

• Test Plan
• License Agreement
• Log File
• Port Assignment
• Stress-test Emulator
• NAT Support

People

• Mohamed Hefeeda

• Cheng-Hsin Hsu (PhD student)

• Majid Bagheri (PhD student)

• Kianoosh Mokhtarian (MSc student)

• Nitin Chiluka (Research Assistant/Software Engineer)

• Bernard Jules (CBC,

• Pouya Alagheband (NSERC Undergraduate Research Awards, Summer 2007)

• Nicolas Gomez (NSERC Undergraduate Research Awards, Summer 2007)