Efficient Content Delivery via Interest Queueing

Abstract

Content sharing is an approach to relieve the congestion of cellular networks with alternative communication technologies such as the Wi-Fi and bluetooth. Through a Content Delivery Network (CDN), only a small portion of users need to download the data directly. Other users obtain packets from these users through short-range communications. However, the uncertainty of movement of mobile users challenges the effectiveness of CDNs. Unlike previous CDN solutions, in this paper, we present a novel scheme that studies the probabilistic meeting of users. When the accessibility to the cellular network is limited, we apply the queueing theory to guide the downloading or waiting strategies of users. In this system, the users who hold the content become seeds in the CDN and benefit their neighbors. Therefore we also consider the seed growing performance in the strategy. The purpose of our scheme is to let every user efficiently obtain their target content with restricted cellular data. The evaluation results show that our scheme gains significant satisfaction throughput improvements compared to the performance of basic downloading strategies.