Research Article
Performance Barriers to Cloud Services in Africa’s Public Sector: A Latency Perspective
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-16042-5_15, author={Josiah Chavula and Amreesh Phokeer and Enrico Calandro}, title={Performance Barriers to Cloud Services in Africa’s Public Sector: A Latency Perspective}, proceedings={e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries. 10th EAI International Conference, AFRICOMM 2018, Dakar, Senegal, November 29-30, 2019, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={AFRICOMM}, year={2019}, month={3}, keywords={Latency Internet measurements Cloud services}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-16042-5_15} }- Josiah Chavula
Amreesh Phokeer
Enrico Calandro
Year: 2019
Performance Barriers to Cloud Services in Africa’s Public Sector: A Latency Perspective
AFRICOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16042-5_15
Abstract
Cloud computing allows individuals and organizations to lease storage and computation resources remotely and as needed. For such remote access to work efficiently, there is need for reliable and low-delay delivery of Internet traffic. By carrying out month-long Internet measurement campaign, this paper investigates location and latencies of cloud-based web hosting in the public sector of five African countries. Results of the study show that a large percentage of public sector websites are hosted in cloud-based infrastructure physically located in America and Europe. Analysis of latencies shows significant differences between local and remote hosted websites, and that delays are significantly lower for countries that host CDN nodes. The results also indicate high delays for local websites that are accessed circuitously.