Peer-To-Peer CDN (PCDN)

[peipeiguo]

Application Domain: (PCDN)

Description

PCDN (Peer to Peer CDN) integrate idle upstream bandwidth resources to form a large and stable P2P network, which can solve the quality problem of edge network, accelerate the effect better, and can be used at a lower cost. There are CDNs to expand the capacity several times, so as to provide CDN services with high quality and low price.

Refer slide: https://www.w3.org/2019/11/25-web-networks-slides.pdf

Example

• Aliyun

Requirements

• How the browser connects to PCDN, use WebRTC or another?
• What P2P protocol between browser and edge nodes?
• Find edge node by a centralized server or by another way?