Improving content delivery using provider-aided distance information

Content delivery systems constitute a major portion of today's Internet traffic. While they are a good source of revenue for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the huge volume of content delivery traffic also poses a significant burden and traffic engineering challenge for the ISP. The difficulty is due to the immense volume of transfers, while the traffic engineering challenge stems from the fact that most content delivery systems themselves utilize a distributed infrastructure. They perform their own traffic flow optimization and realize this using the DNS system. While content delivery systems may, to some extent, consider the user's performance within their optimization criteria, they currently have no incentive to consider any of the ISP's constraints. As a consequence, the ISP has "lost control" over a major part of its traffic. To overcome this impairment, we propose a solution where the ISP offers a Provideraided Distance Information System (PaDIS). Pa...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: IMC
• Authors: Ingmar Poese, Benjamin Frank, Bernhard Ager, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann
• Keywords: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Systems, IMC 2010, Internet Technology, Traffic Engineering Challenge