The stor-serv Project

stor-serv is a interdisciplinary research project to study the technical and economic mechanisms for providing service differentiation to caching and replication based services, such as web caching and content distribution. The project name is inspired by the int-serv and diff-serv frameworks, which seek to provide QoS in the data transmission domain. We develop mechanisms for resource allocation, scalable reporting, and certificate/signature-based security. We also study the provisioning of services in web caching and CDN markets, addressing issues of incentive compatibility, pricing and market structure.

Publications

J. Chuang and M. Sirbu, stor-serv: Adding Quality-of-Service to Network Storage. To appear in The Economics of Quality of Service in Networked Markets, Lee W. McKnight and John Wroclawski (eds.), MIT Press. [1999 workshop version]

K. Hosanagar, R. Krishnan, M. Smith and J. Chuang. Optimal Pricing of Content Distribution Network Services. Proceedings of HICSS 2004, to appear.

K. Hosanagar, R. Krishnan, J. Chuang, and V. Choudhary. Pricing and Resource Allocation in Caching Services with Multiple Levels of QoS. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2002), Barcelona Spain, December 2002.

J. Chuang, S. Kafka and K. Norlen. Efficiency and Performance of Web Cache Reporting Strategies, 2002. Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics in Web Information Systems, Singapore, December 2002. [pdf]

M. Feldman and J. Chuang. Service Differentiation in Web Caching and Content Distribution, 2002. Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Communications and Computer Networks 2002, Cambridge MA, November 2002. [pdf]

A. Myers, J. Chuang, U. Hengartner, Y. Xie, W. Zhuang, H. Zhang, A Secure, Publisher-Centric Web Caching Infrastructure.  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2001, Anchorage AL, April 2001. [pdf]

J. Chuang, Economics of Scalable Network Services. Proceedings of SPIE ITCOM 2001, Denver CO, August 2001. [pdf]

J. Chuang and M. Sirbu, Distributed Network Storage with Quality-of-Service Guarantees. Journal of Network and Computer Applications 23(3): 163-185, July 2000. Also in Proceedings of the Internet Society INET'99 Conference, San Jose CA, June 22-25 1999. [html, pdf]

J. Chuang, Resource Allocation for stor-serv: Network Storage Services with QoS Guarantees. Proceedings of Internet2 Network Storage Symposium 1999, Seattle WA, October 1999. [pdf]