System and method for simultaneous optimization of source selection and traffic engineering

摘要

A method and system for routing data from a plurality of content sources that store the same data to a receiving device in a content distribution network (network), wherein each content source that stores data has its own infinite capacity communication link. Generating network topology represented as virtual routers respectively connected to a common virtual content server by means of, and determining optimized routing through the network topology for data from the virtual content server to the receiving device; Determining a data allocation for each of the content sources to transmit data to the receiving device through the network according to the optimized routing. Temu.