Multimedia content delivery in 6G-enabled networks
摘要
The emergence of 6G networks, supporting data transfer rates above 100 Gbps and sub-millisecond latency, opens unexplored avenues for multimedia content distribution. This paper tackles the issue of exploiting these capabilities by introducing a new 6G-enabled Content Delivery Network (CDN) architecture. Our solution combines two major 6G technologies: dynamic network slicing for content-aware quality-of-service provisioning and lightweight artificial intelligence for proactive edge caching. To assess the performance of our architecture, we use a full-fledged simulation environment that simulates diverse multimedia traffic (text, images, audio, and video). Our simulation study shows that our 6G-CDN architecture can reduce the average fetch latency by 50.5 ms with 98% content delivery accuracy, which is a substantial improvement over the existing 5G-based CDNs. Our results confirm the efficacy of our jointly designed architecture in lowering latency and improving user experience, especially in applications with high bandwidth requirements like high-definition video streaming and real-time interactive applications. This work provides a solid basis for future research on efficient and intelligent content delivery in 6G networks.