About LSAM Relocation: Site selection
How does a relocating proxy find a new home?
The players
- Relocating proxy
- A proxy requesting a change of location
- Relocation servers
- Proxies in the LSAM hierarchy that are willing to host relocating
proxies
- Geography server
- Maps from natural language location to relocation servers
Algorithm
- Relocating proxy requests move from geography server
- Geography server consults database to find a set of potential
relocation servers
- Geography server contacts potential relocation servers to get
resource routing metrics to decide best candidates
- Geography server contacts relocating proxy so that it can inform
clients where to look for the new proxy when they arrive at the new location
- Geography server contacts best candidates so that they can begin
transferring proxy state
- Relocation servers move the relocating
proxy state
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