OpenCache: A software-defined content caching platform

Broadbent, Matthew; King, Daniel; Baildon, Sean; Georgalas, Nektarios; Race, Nicholas

Abstract

Network operators recognise that Content Delivery Networks are essential for meeting user Internet application and content demands. The infrastructure must be tightly integrated to provide request routing, content caching, load balancing, scalability and reliability, whilst minimising deployment time and complexity. A major step towards achieving these goals is to embrace recent Software Defined Network and Network Function Virtualisation objectives and design principles. This paper outlines the OpenCache API; an interface used to define the behaviour and operation of an SDN-based content delivery platform in real-time. We demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of such an API by implementing load-balancing and fail-over functionalities as part of an experimental deployment.

Citation

Broadbent, M., King, D., Baildon, S., Georgalas, N., & Race, N. (2015). OpenCache: A software-defined content caching platform. In Proceedings of the 2015 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). https://doi.org/10.1109/NETSOFT.2015.7116129

• Conference Name: 2015 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
• Conference Location: London
• Start Date: Apr 13, 2015
• End Date: Apr 17, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jun 4, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: Mar 10, 2022
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 2015 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/NETSOFT.2015.7116129
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2844003