Orchestrating massively distributed CDNs

  • Authors:
  • Wenjie Jiang;Stratis Ioannidis;Laurent Massoulié;Fabio Picconi

  • Affiliations:
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA;Technicolor, Palo Alto, CA, USA;INRIA, Paris, France;Technicolor, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We consider a content delivery architecture based on geographically dispersed groups of "last-mile" CDN servers, e.g., set-top boxes located within users' homes. These servers may belong to administratively separate domains, such as multiple ISPs. We propose a set of scalable, adaptive mechanisms to jointly manage content replication and request routing within this architecture. Relying on primal-dual methods and fluid-limit techniques, we formally prove the optimality of our design. We further evaluate its performance on both synthetic and trace-driven simulations, based on real BitTorrent traces, and observe a reduction of network costs by more than 50% over traditional mechanisms such as LRU/LFU with closest request routing.