Optimizing CDN for Superior User Experience in Modern Environments
Ganapathy Subramanian Ramachandran, Gokul Ramakrishnan, Koushik Balaji Venkatesan · 2025
CDNs play an important role in the fast, secure, and reliable content delivery in modern digital environments. Since the demand for digital content with users has exponentially grown, researchers and industry professionals focus on optimizing the content delivery networks to enhance user experience. This paper is focused on emerging trends for improving CDNs' performances through dynamic load balancing, integration of edge computing, and AI-driven traffic routing. It identifies the gaps in the existing literature and possible strategies. This paper introduces a new architecture of a smart, adaptive CDN system by integrating machine learning algorithms with real-time analytics to predict network demands in response effectively. Experimental analysis results clearly show several latency, throughput, and user satisfaction metrics improvements. These will ensure superb content delivery by the organization, hence increasing user engagement and retention. Lastly, it presents challenges, limitations, and further research avenues.