LI Qiao, HE Hui, ZHANG Hong-Li. Research on Content Delivery Networks[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2013, 41(8): 1560-1568.
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LI Qiao, HE Hui, ZHANG Hong-Li. Research on Content Delivery Networks[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2013, 41(8): 1560-1568. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2013.08.017.
CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a novel overlay network
which deploys surrogates on the edge or backbone of network in order to reduce the access delay;it improves the efficiency of content delivery on the global load balance component.In current status
CDN has been a core Internet application as the development of multimedia and network technologies.In this paper
the evolution of CDN and its architecture are introduced;the key component of CDN and mechanism are presented;the taxonomy of CDNs and the performance measured strategies are reviewed.The developing trends of CDN and further topics in this area are also analyzed.