International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 76 - Number 13 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: Erwin Harahap, Janaka Wijekoon, Rajitha Tennekoon, Fumito Yamaguchi, Shinichi Ishida, Hiroaki Nishi |
10.5120/13310-0857 |
Erwin Harahap, Janaka Wijekoon, Rajitha Tennekoon, Fumito Yamaguchi, Shinichi Ishida, Hiroaki Nishi . Modeling of Router-based Request Redirection for Content Distribution Network. International Journal of Computer Applications. 76, 13 ( August 2013), 37-46. DOI=10.5120/13310-0857
The increase of digital data between content's servers and clients in a network causes congestion problems when downloading big web contents including files, streaming media, etc. The problem becomes pronounced when a narrow bandwidth or unexpected termination of streaming services is appeared. Content Delivery Network (CDN) is introduced to overcome such problems by redirect client's request to the best server which proximal and least loaded. However, with intensity increase of people accessing a particular content, the performance of CDN is reduced and sometimes congested. We propose an architecture to solve such problems with a new method to redirect client's request through a special router called Service-oriented Router (SoR). In this paper, several analytical studies and experiments have been conducted and the result show that router-based redirection is more effective than DNS-based redirection that is currently being used. SoR has been introduces as a content-based router and has capability to do deep packet inspection (DPI) into the packet streams and analyze them. We use SoR in our proposed method as a CDN's core-router to redirect client's request to the best server. Our experiment conducted with model and numerical analytic supported by optimal redirection probability based on delay between router and server. The experiment result confirmed that the router-based redirection reduced the response time by 23. 3% compared to the DNS-based redirection.