TY - JOUR AU - Bustamante, Fabian E. AB - The importance of replica selection in next generation cellular networks John P. Rula Fabián E. Bustamante Northwestern University 1. INTRODUCTION nodeB   Smartdevices are becoming the primary or only Internet point 3G  Cellular  Network  Structure   Radio  Access   of access for an ever larger fraction of the population. Nearly a SGSN   Network   nodeB   GGSN   quarter of current web traffic is mobile, and recent industry studies RNC   Cellular  Core   have estimated a fourfold increase on global mobile data traffic by nodeB   SGSN   Radio  Access   GGSN   2018, mainly driven by the content demands and growing number Network   nodeB   of smart phones and tablets [2]. The most recent CISCO VNI report RNC   estimates that by 2018, the majority of North America devices and Internet   connections will have 4G capability and, while 4G will be 15% of LTE  Cellular  Network  Structure   PDN  GW   world-wide connections then, these connections will be responsible SGW   Evolved  Packet  Core   for 51% of traffic. (EPC)   eNodeB   Cellular networks pose a challenge to content delivery networks PDN  GW   SGW   (CDNs) given their opaque network structure, limited TI - Behind the curtain JO - ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review DO - 10.1145/2740070.2631465 DA - 2014-08-17 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/behind-the-curtain-eCTavjSFVL SP - 135 EP - 136 VL - 44 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -