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OpenCache: exploring efficient and transparent content delivery mechanisms for video-on-demand

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Watching 'on-demand' video content is a popular activity facilitated by the Internet. Existing distribution methods typically rely on unicast flows to deliver this media. This can be inefficient if identical content is delivered at a later point in time. We propose a caching platform to store content locally whilst maintaining the underlying delivery method. This paper introduces OpenCache, a prototype network-aware caching platform that utilises emerging OpenFlow technology.

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    CoNEXT Student '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on CoNEXT student workshop
    December 2012
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    2. openflow
    3. software-defined networking
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    • (2021)Towards a Distributed Caching Service at the WiFi Edge Using Wi-CacheIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management10.1109/TNSM.2021.310549618:4(4489-4502)Online publication date: Dec-2021
    • (2017)Quality of Service (QoS) in Software Defined Networking (SDN)Journal of Network and Computer Applications10.1016/j.jnca.2016.12.01980:C(200-218)Online publication date: 15-Feb-2017
    • (2014)OpenCache: Leveraging SDN to demonstrate a customisable and configurable cache2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)10.1109/INFCOMW.2014.6849200(151-152)Online publication date: Apr-2014

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