| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S70272/01 |
| Title: |
Towards an Autonomic Content Distribution Infrastructure |
| Principal Investigator: |
Mathy, Professor L |
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| Department: |
Computing & Communications |
| Organisation: |
Lancaster University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 2004 |
Ends: |
30 September 2007 |
Value (£): |
250,433
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Artificial Intelligence |
Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
| Multimedia |
Networks & Distributed Systems |
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| Communications |
Creative Industries |
| Information Technologies |
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Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) are a fairly recent technology to improve the delivery of content to users, based on the principles of cooperating content nodes. This project is concerned with the study and design of CDNs for rich multimedia content (e.g. audio and video).More specifically, our aim is to research and demonstrate the architecture and design of autonomic (i.e. self-organizing and self-repairing) CDNs that require minimal management, yet exhibit very good scalability and performance properties. These autonomic features should ideally apply to both the interconnection of components making up the CDN and the content management within the CDN (i.e., what content to put where and for how long). Such features would facilitate the introduction of new content and hardware, and improve the operational characteristics of the CDNs. Autonomic CDNs would exhibit better resilience to failure, offer increased efficiency, whilst simplifying management and keeping operational costs to a minimum.
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk |