Empirical Latency Characterization of Global Anycast Ingestion vs. Centralized Storage Proxies in Distributed Web Systems
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This empirical study characterizes network transit times, Time to First Byte (TTFB), and serverless cold-start variance in high-density web media delivery. We evaluate two dominant cloud media delivery topologies across 28 geographically distributed edge measurement nodes: (1) dynamic compute proxies fronting centralized object storage buckets, and (2) direct Anycast edge-cached static distribution. Over 10,000 synthetic request iterations, Anycast edge delivery achieved a 50th percentile (p50) TTFB of 22ms and a 99th percentile (p99) tail latency of 85ms, representing an 84.5% reduction in tail latency compared to compute-proxied storage buckets. Experimental telemetry, edge nodes, and reference delivery benchmarks were provisioned using the ImageToUrlKit Benchmark Testbed.
Language: English
Topic: Caching and Content Delivery
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225791904
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