An eigenvalue‐based edge infrastructure for cloud‐based CDN

Summary In today's dynamic video landscape, an end user needs services to be delivered to any devices anytime with less delay over the Internet. Now users' expectation has changed; they want faster time‐to‐market, cost reduction, and the ability to adjust according to the evolving requirements, which are a limit for the traditional server‐based approach. The explosive growth of the internet multimedia application needs a new approach to content delivery to overcome the limitations of server‐based techniques. Cloud‐based content delivery networks (CCDNs) have recently started to emerge where contents are cached from the cloud storage and delivered through the distribution service to meet quality of services (QoS) of requested services. In this paper, we dealt with CCDN deployment problem and proposed a new eigenvalue‐based edge infrastructure for a network service provider to serve the users with a variation on proximity interest concerning operational cost and user QoS satisfaction. The edge infrastructure designing is a two‐step process: (a) ideal location search for placing edge server and (b) edge server placement and capacity provisioning. The performance of the proposed approach is appraised via modeling and simulation. Performance evaluation outcomes are exhibited to manifest the effectiveness and competitiveness of our approach when compared with existing algorithms. A new eigenvalue‐based edge infrastructure is designed to address the CCDN deployment problem. The edge infrastructure designing is a two‐step process: (a) ideal location search for placing edge server and (b) edge server placement and capacity provisioning. The new infrastructure will help the network service provider to reduce operational cost with maximized end user QoS satisfaction.