Evaluation of a monitoring-based architecture for delivery of high quality multimedia content

Currently, a lot of research has been devoted to (i) content distribution, (ii) traffic engineering, (iii) network monitoring and (iv) service enabling platforms. However, the integration of these four individual concepts in a single platform has not yet been studied in enough detail. In this paper we present an architecture for such a robust content delivery service. The combination of both distributed replication of videos and multi-source traffic engineering tackles specific problems such as congested network parts, overloaded servers and the occurrence of flash crowds. Contrary to most existing systems, the content placement and retrieval algorithms in the presented CDN obtain precise network state information from an integrated monitoring system, allowing even a higher efficiency. To validate the performance of the CDN, an exact placement ILP formulation and various RPA heuristics are implemented and simulated.