Penny saved is penny earned : a peer-to-peer approach to alleviate costs of operating Wikipedia
A fundamental problem that confronts website hosting is to manage the expenses incurred in running servers and paying for bandwidth consumed by visitors. Large volumes of traffic slow down websites and often readers cannot access the content they requested. Wikipedia, a free online encyclope...
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| author | Kansal, Sonakshi. |
| author2 | Anwitaman Datta |
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| description | A fundamental problem that confronts website hosting is to manage the expenses incurred in running servers and paying for bandwidth consumed by visitors. Large volumes of traffic slow down websites and often readers cannot access the content they requested.
Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, has more than 4 million registered users and is currently the 12th most popular website according to Alexa.com. However, it often runs into financial crunch because of its non-commercial nature and high demand.
This project aims to address this problem by developing a peer to peer network which allows readers to exchange wikipedia pages directly from each other without having to visit caching servers and origin servers, thereby, resulting in cost reduction. The peer to peer network is accessed from within the popular Mozilla Firefox browser via a plug-in.
The software adapts efficiently as visitors join and leave the system, and can answer queries even though the system is continuously changing. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/400652023-03-03T20:23:09Z Penny saved is penny earned : a peer-to-peer approach to alleviate costs of operating Wikipedia Kansal, Sonakshi. Anwitaman Datta School of Computer Engineering Centre for Advanced Information Systems DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems A fundamental problem that confronts website hosting is to manage the expenses incurred in running servers and paying for bandwidth consumed by visitors. Large volumes of traffic slow down websites and often readers cannot access the content they requested. Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, has more than 4 million registered users and is currently the 12th most popular website according to Alexa.com. However, it often runs into financial crunch because of its non-commercial nature and high demand. This project aims to address this problem by developing a peer to peer network which allows readers to exchange wikipedia pages directly from each other without having to visit caching servers and origin servers, thereby, resulting in cost reduction. The peer to peer network is accessed from within the popular Mozilla Firefox browser via a plug-in. The software adapts efficiently as visitors join and leave the system, and can answer queries even though the system is continuously changing. Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) 2010-06-10T01:46:11Z 2010-06-10T01:46:11Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/40065 en Nanyang Technological University 42 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems Kansal, Sonakshi. Penny saved is penny earned : a peer-to-peer approach to alleviate costs of operating Wikipedia |
| title | Penny saved is penny earned : a peer-to-peer approach to alleviate costs of operating Wikipedia |
| title_full | Penny saved is penny earned : a peer-to-peer approach to alleviate costs of operating Wikipedia |
| title_fullStr | Penny saved is penny earned : a peer-to-peer approach to alleviate costs of operating Wikipedia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Penny saved is penny earned : a peer-to-peer approach to alleviate costs of operating Wikipedia |
| title_short | Penny saved is penny earned : a peer-to-peer approach to alleviate costs of operating Wikipedia |
| title_sort | penny saved is penny earned a peer to peer approach to alleviate costs of operating wikipedia |
| topic | DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/40065 |
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