Distributed Caching Algorithms for Content Distribution Networks

@article{Borst2010DistributedCA,
  title={Distributed Caching Algorithms for Content Distribution Networks},
  author={Sem C. Borst and Varun Gupta and Anwar Elwalid},
  journal={2010 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM},
  year={2010},
  pages={1-9}
}
The delivery of video content is expected to gain huge momentum, fueled by the popularity of user-generated clips, growth of VoD libraries, and wide-spread deployment of IPTV services with features such as CatchUp/PauseLive TV and NPVR capabilities. The `time-shifted' nature of these personalized applications defies the broadcast paradigm underlying conventional TV networks, and increases the overall bandwidth demands by orders of magnitude. Caching strategies provide an effective mechanism for… 
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