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A content delivery cloud, such as MetaCDN, is an integrated overlay that utilizes cloud computing to provide content delivery services to Internet end-users. While it ensures satisfactory user perceived performance, it also aims to improve the traffic activities in its world-wide distributed network and uplift the usefulness of its replicas. To realize this objective, in this paper, we measure the utility of content delivery via MetaCDN, capturing the system-specific perceived benefits. We use this utility measure to devise a request-redirection policy that ensures high performance content delivery. We also quantify a content provider’s benefits from using MetaCDN based on its user perceived performance. We conduct a proof-of-concept testbed experiment for MetaCDN to demonstrate the performance of our approach and reveal our observations on the MetaCDN utility and content provider’s benefits from using MetaCDN.
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Pathan, M., Broberg, J., Buyya, R. (2009). Maximizing Utility for Content Delivery Clouds. In: Vossen, G., Long, D.D.E., Yu, J.X. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009. WISE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5802. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_7
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