Server Replication in Multicast Networks

This paper studies and proposes heuristic algorithms to solve the problem of replicated server placement (RSP) with Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Although there has been much work on RSP in multicast networks, in most of them a simplified replication model is used, therefore, their proposed solutions may not be applicable to real systems. In this paper, we use a more realistic, and generalized model for replica placement, which considers...