LSAM – Large Scale Active Middleware – StrayAlpha (original) (raw)

About LSAM

The LSAM Proxy Cache uses multicast push of related web pages, based on automatically-selected interest groups, to load caches at natural network aggregation points. The proxy is designed to reduce server and network load,
and increase client performance.

• • Overall project overview and FAQ
  • What’s so special about caches? and what’s a virtual cache?
  • Virtual Cache Browser Demo
  • A quick look at the channel architecture

Project components

• Intelligent Bandwidth
• Replication
• Security
• Performance

LSAM Proxy Cache (LPC) (software release here)

See the LPC in action. (DEPRECATED)
(no userID or password is required for demo mode – just click “OK”)

• • • Multicast Channel Program Guide
      • Dynamic Cache Control
      • Object Scheduling
      • Intelligent Request Routing
      • Mobility Management
      • Environment Analysis

People

• Joe Touch. Project Leader. Coordinating overall proxy architecture, and performing research on channel management and environment analysis. Earlier work focused on Intelligent Bandwidth research.
• John Heidemann. Researching object performance issues. Earlier work focused on replication and transport performance research.
• Ted Faber. Researching mobility issues.
• Anne Hutton. Researching channel management and environment analysis. Earlier work focused on overall system integration and performance.
• Steve Hotz. Researching request routing and cut-through.
• Greg Finn. Researching channel management and environment analysis.
• LSAM Graduate student researchers:
  • Amy Hughes. Graduate student researching dynamic cache systems. Earlier work focused on multicast cache configuration.
  • Lars Eggert. Graduate student researching object scheduling. Earlier work focused on TCP control block sharing.
  • Wei Yue. Graduate student researching multicast channel configuration issues.
  • Stephen Suryaputra. Graduate student researching routing issues.
  • Vikram Visweswaraiah. Graduate student researching replication issues.
  • Anand Oswal. Graduate student researching reliable multicast transport protocols.
• Affilliated Researchers:
  • Katia Obraczka. Earlier work focused on intelligent bandwidth and transport protocol performance research.
  • Brian Tung. Earlier work focused on security research.

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