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Adaptive content caching simulation with visualization capabilities

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Current Internet architecture is being challenged by the overwhelming multiplication of available content and the increasing requirements of the content delivery applications. Content Delivery Networks have been playing a catalytic role in content delivery solutions, replicating (caching) content at the edges of the network. In this paper, we have investigated the potential benefits offered by adaptability in overlay content replication, considering changing conditions such as the popularity and the size of the content objects and a system of collaborating content caches. Pursuing the understanding of the influence of these parameters we have designed and implemented a simulation framework, with enhanced visualization and parameterization capabilities, and performed a series of experiments, under varying conditions.

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  1. School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPETE), & Synelixis Solutions Ltd, Athens, Greece

    Andreas Papadakis

  2. Technological Educational Institute of Sterea Ellada, Chalkida, Greece

    Theodore Zahariadis

  3. Synelixis Solutions Ltd, Chalkida, Greece

    Nikolaos Nikolaou

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Papadakis, A., Zahariadis, T. & Nikolaou, N. Adaptive content caching simulation with visualization capabilities. Telecommun Syst 59, 531–539 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-014-9913-4

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