Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Within Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), users are typically geographically load-balanced across multiple servers in order to provide better performance and locality – users are assigned to the content servers close to them. One approach to user-server assignment is the use of IP anycast, where all the content servers use the same IP address. A user request is then routed to the server closest to the user, determined by the routing protocols such as BGP. Hover, there are problems associated with this anycast-based approach. IP anycast is generally incapable of updating or redirecting users to a different (better) server without breaking already established TCP sessions. Moreover, the CDN operators do not have much control on where to redirect the users – it is completely controlled by Internet routing.   present our Man-In-the-Middle Anycast (MIMA) architecture, a novel anycast-based design that leverages Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) techniques to enable flexible and efficient user-server assignment.  demonstrate that the MIMA architecture is capable of performing flexible user-server assignment and offloading during times of high demand, such as flash crowd events that are becoming more common in a media-focused Internet. These capabilities offered by MIMA provide CDN operators a higher degree of flexibility in network management and content provisioning by enabling flexible user-server assignment.
['Jeffrey Lai', 'Qiang Fu']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Man-In-the-Middle Anycast (MIMA): CDN User-Server Assignment Becomes Flexible
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