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Resource Management in Multi-Domain Content- Aware Networks for Multimedia Applications

Authors:
Eugen Borcoci
Mihai Stanciu
Dragoş Niculescu
Şerban Georgică Obreja

Keywords: Keywords—Content-Aware Networking; Network Aware Applications; Connectivity services; CAN Management; Multimedia distribution; Future Internet

Abstract:
Abstract—The significant orientation of the current Internet towards information/content determined the appearance of new solutions and concepts among which the Content Aware Networking is a significant one. Virtual Content Aware Networks (VCAN) constructed as overlays over IP network substrate is considered an efficient solution to incrementally introduce content awareness at network level. This paper continues a previous effort to define and develop a new framework for connectivity resources management in overlay VCANs, built over multi-domain, multi-provider IP networks. The VCANs are created and managed by novel business entities called CAN Providers and they offer enhanced connectivity services to high level Services Providers (SP), including unicast, multicast, and P2P in a multi-domain networking context. The paper develops the management system and procedures to negotiate and allocate the connectivity resources in different network domains, independently managed, but cooperating to create VCANs. The management framework is based on vertical and horizontal Service Level Agreements (SLA) negotiated and concluded between providers and possibly also on content/service description information (metadata) inserted in the media flow packets by the servers.

Pages: 43 to 57

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2012. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2012

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ISSN: 1942-2644