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Title : Extending the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Protocol
Author(s) : Enrico Marocco
Vijay K. Gurbani
Filename : draft-marocco-alto-next-00.txt
Pages : 11
Date : 2012-01-20
The Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) protocol is
designed to allow entities with knowledge about the network
infrastructure to export such information to applications that need
to choose one or more endpoints to connect to among large sets of
logically equivalent ones. The primary use case for the ALTO
protocol was peer-to-peer applications for file sharing, video
streaming and realtime communications, usually running on end-user
devices. However, a number of other applications executing in more
controlled environments may also benefit from the information that
can be exported through the ALTO protocol. The use cases that have
received significant attention include Content Delivery Networks
(CDNs), distributed applications running in large datacenters, as
well as systems made of inter-communicating ALTO servers.
To apply ALTO to these new use cases, this document aims to foster a
discussion to determine if, and how, the ALTO protocol could be
extended to provide a simple yet useful view of a computational
environment that goes beyond the static (or near static) network
topology and cost map information.
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