Improvement of Content Server with Contents Anycasting Using OpenFlow
Othman M.M. Othman, Koji Okamura · Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network · 2010
In this paper, we show our design and implementation method of contents anycasting using OpenFlow that is a promising future internet enabling technology. This method aims to improve the content server by enabling it serve more clients, also this method aims to make a more efficient use of the overall bandwidth available in the network by providing more flexible and dynamic redirection of contents that is done with the help of OpenFlow's new potential abilities and thus giving new opportunities to the future internet that are currently not available. This method relies on three important ideas which are; the content based networking, decision making by the network in a similar manner to anycast and the participation of user clients in providing the service. All this is done using the newly invented OpenFlow. It is done through some modifications to the content server and client, thus imposing small changes to the application layer.