Distributing Content Simplifies ISP Traffic Engineering
Abhigyan Sharma, Arun Venkataramani, Ramesh Sitaraman

TL;DR
This paper demonstrates that distributing content strategically can greatly simplify traffic engineering for ISPs, often eliminating the need for complex traffic management, with simple schemes performing nearly optimally.
Contribution
It reveals how effective content placement reduces traffic engineering complexity and shows that simple demand-oblivious schemes are nearly optimal.
Findings
Content distribution simplifies ISP traffic engineering.
Simple demand-oblivious schemes perform close to optimal.
Effective content placement can eliminate the need for complex traffic engineering.
Abstract
Several major Internet service providers (e.g., Level-3, AT&T, Verizon) today also offer content distribution services. The emergence of such "Network-CDNs" (NCDNs) are driven by market forces that place more value on content services than just carrying the bits. NCDNs are also necessitated by the need to reduce the cost of carrying ever-increasing volumes of traffic across their backbones. An NCDN has the flexibility to determine both where content is placed and how traffic is routed within the network. However NCDNs today continue to treat traffic engineering independently from content placement and request redirection decisions. In this paper, we investigate the interplay between content distribution strategies and traffic engineering and ask how an NCDN should engineer traffic in a content-aware manner. Our experimental analysis, based on traces from a large content distribution…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCaching and Content Delivery · Software-Defined Networks and 5G · Network Traffic and Congestion Control
