New Generation Value Networks for Content Delivery

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the future of Internet content delivery by examining economic and technical challenges, evaluating the robustness of current CDN models, and exploring the potential of Information-Centric Networking (ICN) as a solution.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive assessment of future challenges in content delivery and evaluates the potential of ICN to address these issues compared to traditional CDN models.

Findings

Current CDN models face challenges from encryption and traffic growth.

ICN shows promise in improving scalability and control.

Technical and economic factors influence future content delivery strategies.

Abstract

In this paper we paint a broad picture of the Internet content delivery market, by taking into consideration both economical and technical challenges that might drive the interactions among the stakeholders in the future. We focus on a few disrupting factors, namely ubiquitous encryption, traffic boost, network scalability, latency needs and network control; and try to figure out whether the current model (CDN) is robust against their variation, which optimization can be envisioned and how the most accredited option (ICN) can be of help.