A Technique to Assign an Appropriate Server to a Client, for a CDN Consists of Servers at the Global Internet and Hierarchical Private Networks

摘要

This paper discusses a technique to assign an appropriate server to a client for a content delivery network (CDN). We assume that the CDN consists of not only servers in the global Internet but also servers in hierarchical private networks. To use a common web browser as the client, this technique does not use broadcasting or multicasting. When a client is placed in a private network and a server of the CDN is also placed in the same private network, the client is connected to the server automatically by using this technique. When a client is placed in a private network and no CDN server is in the private network, or when the client is placed in the global network, the client is connected to a server in the global network automatically. This technique could improve the bandwidth between a server and a client when they are placed in the same private network because the TCP bandwidth heavily depends on latency. The CDN user does not need to know the location of a server. This technique does not use DNS because a CDN server in a private network is not always registered in the DNS.