Hybrid CDN structure with a P2P based streaming protocol

TL;DR

This paper proposes a hybrid CDN architecture integrating P2P streaming to address scalability and redundancy issues, aiming to improve internet data delivery efficiency and user experience.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hybrid CDN-P2P structure that tackles data redundancy problems, enhancing scalability and reducing costs in content distribution.

Findings

Redundancy significantly impacts network economics.

Hybrid structure reduces traffic load and redundancy.

Improves scalability and user experience.

Abstract

Over the last decade, internet has seen an exponential increase in its growth.With more and more people using it, efficient data delivery over the internet has become a key issue. Peer-to-peer (P2P)/seed sharing based networks have several desirable features for content distribution, such as low costs, scalability, and fault tolerance. While the invention of each of such specialized systems has improved the user experience, some fundamental shortcomings of these systems have often been neglected. These shortcomings of content distribution systems have become severe bottlenecks in scalability of the internet.In order to combine the desired features of classical Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) and P2P/seed sharing based networks, we propose a hybrid CDN structure with a P2P/seed sharing based streaming protocol in the access network . In this work, we focus on the problem of data redundancy (at each node) and show how severely it impacts the network economics and the experience of end-user and hence leads to low traffic load and redundancy