Cooperatively Constructing Cost-Effective Content Distribution Networks upon Emerging Low Earth Orbit Satellites and Clouds

Internet content providers typically exploit cloud-based content delivery/distribution networks (CDNs) to provide wide-area data access with high availability and low latency. However, from a global perspective, a large portion of users still suffer from high content access latency due to the insufficient deployment of terrestrial cloud infrastructures.This paper presents StarFront, a cost-effecti...