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BACKGROUND

0002 Multimedia applications over wired and wireless networks are growing rapidly. End users demand rich multi media applications regardless of the fact that multimedia content requires huge resources from the underlying network. Centralized media servers require considerable demands towards the bandwidth of the backbone Internet protocol (IP) network. As a solution for this, network operators have placed caches and stream replicators in the operator network, called network peer.

0003. The network peers are deployed and controlled by operators or service providers. The network peers interface with cache servers deployed by other operators or service providers. Different internet service providers (ISP) may col laborate to share some of the content delivery burden by some form of content/network peering. The network peers look different than caching within a content distribution network …