INTRODUCING APPLICATION-LEVEL REPLICATION AND NAMING INTO TODAYS WEB

Because of its enormous success, the World-Wide Web created many probl ems within the Internet, most of them due to its huge bandwidth requir ements. Additional applications using the Web's infrastructure for dis tributed computing (see, e.g., [5]), even further increase network loa d. In this paper, we are presenting a comprehensive application-level approach to solving the Web-induced bandwidth and latency problems wit hin the Internet while staying fully compatible with the current mecha nisms of the World-Wide Web. Our approach is based on automated replic ation schemes and complementary name services. In this paper, we are g oing to introduce these two concepts, and explain the many advantages they bring not only to every Web user but also to the various network and service providers currently struggling to keep up with rising user demands. In addition to an abstract presentation of this approach, we are also highlighting the concepts of our freely available implementa tion.