Cloud resource reduction evaluation by video caching and streaming in LAN environment

Presumably Internet happens to be the first choice for on-demand entertainment, and HD-video contributes to major share of Internet bandwidth consumed. Adding to this there is considerable number of audience who intend to watch particular content more than once. Given the best effort delivery mechanism of Internet along with clogged data centers, there is a huge load on cloud in terms of data bandwidth, throughput and power consumption. This paper evaluates Internet traffic reduction and network infrastructure power reduction gains of proposed video caching and streaming mechanism in LAN environment.