A Distributed CDN based on modern web technologies
(A work in progress for my Undergraduate Thesis at the University of Washington)
- Design and begin documenting the basic protocol (Top of dcdn.js)
- Implement file chunking, basic code piping and the HTTP fallback layer
- Implement serving of metadata through Coordination Server
- Implement P2P initiation through coordination server
- Implement P2P connections
- Implement P2P file transfer
- Implement metadata generation from URL
- Implement URL caching to disk on C.Serv
- Allow certain things to be accessed over HTTP to the C Serv (ie low latency metadata and chunks)
- Persist as much as possible on the client
- More Documentation of the protocol
- Add tons of stat collection for research
- Clone this repo
- run
make examples - Navigate to http://localhost:8080/examples/ in your browser (Chrome or Firefox)