An architecture for content routing support in the internet

  • Authors:
  • Mark Gritter;David R. Cheriton

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Stanford University;Computer Science Department, Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • USITS'01 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The primary use of the Internet is content distribution -- the delivery of web pages, audio, and video to client applications -- yet the Internet was never architected for scalable content delivery. The result has been a proliferation of proprietary protocols and ad hoc mechanisms to meet growing content demand. In this paper, we describe a content routing design based on name-based routing as part of an explicit Internet content layer. We claim that this content routing is a natural extension of current Internet directory and routing systems, allows efficient content location, and can be implemented to scale with the Internet.