A P2P Home-Box Overlay for Efficient Content Distribution

The overlay networks composed of residential gateways (i.e. home-box) leverage their storage and upload capacity to achieve scalable and cost-efficient content distribution. In this chapter, we present the architecture of the home-box overlay for video on demand services, with the network-aware request redirection and content caching strategy that optimizes the resource usage at both network and client side, for reducing the overall distribution cost. The proposed system is compared with existing solutions through comprehensive simulations. The results demonstrate the advantage of network-aware and popularity-based caching strategy, with reduced the overall cost of the VoD services.