Impact of different content placement and delivery strategies on content delivery capacity of the wireless mesh networks

Abstract

Wireless mesh networks are introduced as a way for providing cheap, easily deployable and maintainable access to core network's services. The content delivery capacity of these networks directly depends on the number of installed wireless mesh network gateways. In this paper, we present analysis of impact of content placement on nodes of wireless mesh network on the total streaming capacity of that network. Our analysis shows that network's streaming capacity, with respect to given topology and cached content, can be equally increased with content placement on access points of the network, as it would be increased with installation of additional gateways. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.