Mobile Edge Cache Content Pre-loading for Limited Bandwidth
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current content distribution networks struggle to provide reliable and efficient connectivity for mobile environments like airplanes, trains, and buses, where bandwidth is limited and variable, failing to meet user expectations for seamless network access.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a Content Delivery Network (CDN) extender that uses strategic high-speed access points, intelligent caching, and a Content Service Provider (CSP) to manage IP subnetworks, cache content at edge locations, and utilize capacitors and CDN nodes to pre-load and distribute content efficiently, even in areas with limited connectivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If content is distributed over traditional networks in mobile environments, then network coverage is provided, but bandwidth is limited and variable leading to poor user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-loads content onto capacitors at strategic locations along anticipated travel paths before mobile environments reach them. This preliminary action ensures content is available locally when needed, eliminating bandwidth limitations during transit while maintaining reliable network coverage through the capacitor-CDN node distribution architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
Capacitors serve as intermediary storage devices between traditional networks and mobile environments. They receive content from CDN nodes when mobile environments are stationary and have network access, then distribute it locally during transit, mediating between limited external bandwidth and high internal content demands.
2Quantity of substance
If more bandwidth is provided to mobile environments during transit, then user expectations are met, but infrastructure cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The network infrastructure is segmented into fixed capacitors at strategic locations and mobile CDN nodes on vehicles. This segmentation allows bandwidth to be provided locally through CDN nodes without requiring comprehensive high-bandwidth infrastructure everywhere, reducing overall system complexity while meeting user demands.
Solution Approach 2:
Content synchronization between capacitors and CDN nodes occurs periodically when mobile environments are stationary at locations with capacitor presence. This periodic action reduces continuous bandwidth requirements and infrastructure complexity during transit, while still providing abundant bandwidth when needed.
3Speed
If content is cached at edge locations, then content delivery speed is improved, but network management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs analytics logic that continuously monitors content usage patterns, capacitor locations, and mobile environment trajectories. This feedback enables intelligent decisions about what content to pre-load onto which capacitors, optimizing delivery speed while managing network complexity through data-driven automation rather than manual configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts caching parameters such as content selection, capacitor placement, and synchronization timing based on anticipated travel patterns and usage analytics. These parameter changes optimize content delivery speed for specific routes and times while adapting network management complexity to actual demand rather than using fixed complex configurations.
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AI summary
A system comprising: a plurality of mobile edge caches integrated within a corresponding plurality of mobile environments; a local network manager coupled to each edge cache device in each mobile environment to provide network connectivity to client devices within each mobile environment; a mobile high speed network interface coupled to each mobile edge cache within each mobile environment to establish a high bandwidth link to one or more fixed high speed network interfaces when the mobile environment is within range; a fixed core cache to store content titles owned by a content provider, the content titles to be distributed to the plurality of mobile edge caches, each content title comprising a plurality of title segments; wherein the content provider is to maintain a primary website to provide access to each content title by streaming apps installed on client devices, a streaming app running on a first client device within a first mobile environment to generate a request for a first content title responsive to user input, the request including a network address associated with the primary website; a request redirector to responsively redirect the request to a first mobile edge cache within the first mobile environment and/or the fixed core cache, wherein at least a portion of the title segments of the first content title are to be streamed to the streaming app from the first mobile edge cache.