An Architecture for Content Routing Support in the Internet

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Abstract: 

The primary use of the Internet is content distribution -- the delivery of web pages, audio, and video to client applications -- yet the Internet was never architected for scalable content delivery. The result has been a proliferation of proprietary protocols and ad hoc mechanisms to meet growing content demand.

In this paper, we describe a content routing design based on name-based routing as part of an explicit Internet content layer. We claim that this content routing is a natural extension of current Internet directory and routing systems, allows efficient content location, and can be implemented to scale with the Internet.

BibTeX
@inproceedings {271038,
author = {Mark Gritter and David R. Cheriton},
title = {An Architecture for Content Routing Support in the Internet},
booktitle = {3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS 01)},
year = {2001},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usits-01/architecture-content-routing-support-internet},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}
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