Light weight HTTP for transport and content sharing in 5G cellular networks

Content Caching is a promising solution that can reduce network traffic, lower latency and improve the performance in 5G cellular networks. Video content is one of the most important types of multimedia traversing the cellular networks. It generates more traffic on network than any other types of multimedia. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is one of the widely used protocols for content delivery. HTTP can be used to request the content from the servers and content caching. This paper analyzes HTTP and proposes a lighter weight version of it. The lighter weight HTTP shows promise in reducing the networking traffic while maintaining the same level of security as the regular HTTP.