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Replication of a popular file and storing its replica in the locations closer to the clients who are making requests is the best choice to reduce the execution time. Although replication helps in increasing availability, the question of how to decide an optimal replication number and correct locations to place the replicas are open challenges. In this paper, a brief survey on various data center selection...