Optimal content prefetching for cloud assisted content delivery

When

04/02/2015    
3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Gyorgy Dan
KTH

Where

LINCS Meeting Room 40
23, avenue d'Italie, Paris, 75013

Event Type

Motivated by improved models for content workload prediction, in this paper we consider the problem of dynamic content allocation for a hybrid content delivery system that combines cloud-based storage with low cost dedicated servers that have limited storage and unmetered upload bandwidth. We formulate the problem of allocating contents to the dedicated storage as a finite horizon dynamic decision problem, and show that a discrete time decision problem is a good approximation forpiecewise stationary workloads. We provide an exact solution to the discrete time decision problem in the form of a mixed integer linear programming problem, propose computationally feasible approximations, and give bounds on their approximation ratios. Finally, we evaluate the algorithms using synthetic and measured traces from a commercial music on-demand service and give insight into their performance as a function of the workload characteristics.