EdgeX: Edge Replication for Web Applications

web applications;databases;data partitioning;edge networks;Computer Science

Saxena, Hemant

University of Waterloo

关键词: web applications;    databases;    data partitioning;    edge networks;    Computer Science;   

Others  :  https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/10012/9815/1/saxena_hemant.pdf

瑞士|英语

来源: UWSPACE Waterloo Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

Global web applications face the problem of high network latency due to their need tocommunicate with distant data centers. Many applications use edge networks for cachingimages, CSS, javascript, and other static content in order to avoid some of this networklatency. However, for updates and for anything other than static content, communicationwith the data center is still required, and can dominate application request latencies. Oneway to address this problem is to push more of the web application, as well the database onwhich it depends, from the remote data center towards the edge of the network. This thesispresents preliminary work in this direction. Speci cally, it presents an edge-aware dynamicdata replication architecture for relational database systems supporting web applications.The objective is to allow dynamic content to be served from the edge of the network, withlow latency.