Real-World Systems

Content Delivery and Edge Computing Systems

Our work helped create of the world’s first major content delivery networks (CDNs) and edge computing services. These select papers describe real-life production systems that currently deliver a significant fraction of the web, videos, and applications to billions of clients world-wide.

2020

Schomp, Kyle; Bhardwaj, Onkar; Kurdoglu, Eymen; Muhaimen, Mashooq; Sitaraman, Ramesh K.

Akamai DNS: Providing Authoritative Answers to the World’s Queries Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, 2020.

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Sundarrajan, Aditya; Kasbekar, Mangesh; Sitaraman, Ramesh K; Shukla, Samta

Midgress-aware traffic provisioning for content delivery Proceedings Article

In: USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 20), pp. 543–557, USENIX Association, 2020, ISBN: 978-1-939133-14-4.

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Rahul Urgaonkar Kevin Spiteri, Ramesh Sitaraman

BOLA: Near-Optimal Bitrate Adaptation for Online Videos Journal Article

In: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020.

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2019

Spiteri, Kevin; Sitaraman, Ramesh; Sparacio, Daniel

From theory to practice: Improving bitrate adaptation in the DASH reference player Journal Article

In: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), vol. 15, no. 2s, pp. 67, 2019.

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2017

Sundarrajan, Aditya; Feng, Mingdong; Kasbekar, Mangesh; Sitaraman, Ramesh K

Footprint Descriptors: Theory and Practice of Cache Provisioning in a Global CDN Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, pp. 55–67, ACM 2017.

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2015

Chen, Fangfei; Sitaraman, Ramesh K; Torres, Marcelo

End-user mapping: Next generation request routing for content delivery Journal Article

In: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 167–181, 2015.

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Maggs, Bruce M; Sitaraman, Ramesh K

Algorithmic nuggets in content delivery Journal Article

In: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 52–66, 2015.

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Gillman, David; Lin, Yin; Maggs, Bruce; Sitaraman, Ramesh K

Protecting websites from attack with secure delivery networks Journal Article

In: Computer, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 26–34, 2015.

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2014

Sitaraman, Ramesh K; Kasbekar, Mangesh; Lichtenstein, Woody; Jain, Manish

Overlay networks: An akamai perspective Journal Article

In: Advanced Content Delivery, Streaming, and Cloud Services, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 305–328, 2014.

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2011

Andreev, Konstantin; Maggs, Bruce M; Meyerson, Adam; Saks, Jevan; Sitaraman, Ramesh K

Algorithms for constructing overlay networks for live streaming Journal Article

In: arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4114, 2011.

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2010

Nygren, Erik; Sitaraman, Ramesh K; Sun, Jennifer

The akamai network: a platform for high-performance internet applications Journal Article

In: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 2–19, 2010.

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2004

Kontothanassis, Leonidas; Sitaraman, Ramesh; Wein, Joel; Hong, Duke; Kleinberg, Robert; Mancuso, Brian; Shaw, David; Stodolsky, Daniel

A transport layer for live streaming in a content delivery network Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 92, no. 9, pp. 1408–1419, 2004.

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2002

Dilley, John; Maggs, Bruce; Parikh, Jay; Prokop, Harald; Sitaraman, Ramesh; Weihl, Bill

Globally distributed content delivery Journal Article

In: IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 50–58, 2002.

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