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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
May. 07, 2019
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (US);
Milad Mahdian, New York, NY (US);
Armin Moharrer, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Efstratios Ioannidis, Boston, MA (US);
Edmund Meng Yeh, Newton, MA (US);
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a computer-implemented method, a corresponding a computer program product and a corresponding apparatus for distributing cached content in a network, the computer-implemented method comprising: collecting statistics regarding requests made and paths taken by the requests from source nodes to server nodes via intermediate nodes, the source nodes, intermediate nodes, and server nodes interconnected by edges having queues with respective queue sizes associated therewith, the requests including indications of content items to be retrieved; storing the content items at the server nodes; caching, by the intermediate nodes, the content items up to a caching capacity; and performing caching decisions that determine which of the content items are to be cached at which of the intermediate nodes, based upon costs that are monotonic, non-decreasing functions of the sizes of the queues.
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