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DNS Does Not Suffice for MEC-CDN

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James Choncholas,

Ketan Bhardwaj,

Ada GavrilovskaAuthors Info & Claims

HotNets '20: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks

Pages 212 - 218

https://doi.org/10.1145/3422604.3425931

Published: 04 November 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Mobile edge computing (MEC) can transform mobile networks into a new infrastructure tier for services requiring low response times, such as those providing content to emerging AR/VR, autonomous driving, and other types of applications. To be successful, the CDNs operating in this MEC infrastructure tier MEC-CDNs will need to ensure end user applications gain access to a cache server in a fast and accurate manner. This paper sheds light on the challenges that the current mobile DNS architecture poses toward achieving this goal, and presents ideas on how to re-architect the existing DNS architecture to enable CDNs to provide low-latency content delivery from the edge.

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DNS Does Not Suffice for MEC-CDN
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
2. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks

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