Enhanced Content Navigation Using Edge Routers in Content Delivery Network

Abstract

The Internet can be defined as a network composed of geographically dispersed servers and clients. In principle, clients request content from servers, and the servers respond to the requests by sending the requested content to the clients. The content should be navigated among networks, and certain rules and methods have been developed to achieve optimized navigation. Navigation is definable as the process of finding a destination and reaching that destination using a preferable route. Hence, the main challenges for achieving content navigation on the Internet can be summarized in the following two directions: 1) to determine and select service points and 2) to route users to selected service points. The need for optimized content delivery accelerates the development of the Internet by proposing content delivery networks (CDNs). CDNs use content cache servers within Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks …