Design, optimization and performance evaluation of a content distribution overlay for streaming

  • Authors:
  • Luca Caviglione;Cristiano Cervellera

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via De Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy;Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via De Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

As an evolution of peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing applications, overlay-based networks are also adopted to efficiently distribute content with real-time constraints to a wide user population. In addition, they can be utilized to exploit application level strategies to overcome limitations imposed by the underlying network infrastructure, e.g., the lack of multicast support. In this perspective, the paper introduces an overlay Content Distribution Network (CDN) able to sustain the real-time delivery of data streams. To better use resources, and to face the churn affecting users, the control and optimization of the CDN are performed through a model predictive control scheme. Simulations of two use cases are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed solution. In particular, the stream of multimedia and interactive grid data are considered.