CCDN: campus content delivery network learning facility

We propose to adapt the scalable schema of content delivery networks (CDN) to the campus environment, naming the novel architecture as campus content delivery network (CCDN). This overlay network will provide scalable and balanced access to the students and teachers to e-learning facilities. The CCDN will be composed by caches used as edge delivery nodes, content routing capabilities to route the client to the closest copy of the content, distributed content distribution and management and improving the access of users in terms of speed, reliability, scalability and prevention of flash-crowds. We present as a case study the work in progress of the deployment of a CCDN in the technical university of Valencia together with an e-learning streaming application over the CCDN.