Priority based selection to improve contents consistency for mobile overlay network

With the growing use of dynamic content by mobile content distribution systems, how to manage dynamically changing files has become an important issue, since the cached replicas on different mobile sites must be updated if the originals have been changed. Therefore, this paper proposes a priority based selection method to enhance the efficient utilization of network resource and support the client mobility for Mobile Contents Delivery Network (M-CDN). On one hand, a consistency priority is calculated by analyzing the characteristics of mobile surrogates. If a given content which has been changed on its original node, only the replicas with the high consistency priority instead of all replicas are updated. On the other hand, an update priority is also proposed. If a replica has been selected for update, the latest version will be sent from the site decided by the update consistency. Simulation results show that the proposed new approach outperforms other conventional methods.