• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.61-71
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• 2009

The server redirection system replicates contents on replica servers in the distributed network environment. When users make a request for contents, the system can provide the contents much faster than the client-server network system. In the server redirection system, it is the most important to select the optimal replica server with user's information because many replica servers are geographically distributed. And, the system can serve contents to users flexibly if a redirector is well constructed. In this paper, the redirector makes a list of candidates suitable for user conditions by the decision tree method and calculates the availability of each replica server. And, the redirector selects the replica server with the highest availability. This paper also proposes an availability-based server redirection system that predicts the availability of each replica server in order to reduce the workload of replica servers and the repetitive communication messages between a redirector and replica servers. If a user accesses the network path for the replica server selected and noticed by the proposed system, the user can get contents effectively and efficiently.