In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating cache resources among multiple content providers. The cache can be partitioned into slices and each partition can be dedicated to a particular content provider, or shared among a number of them. It is assumed that each partition employs the LRU policy for managing content. We propose utility-driven partitioning, where we associate with each c...

Information brokers can use information available from content providers to answer complex user queries. To accomplish this task they need descriptions of the domains of content providers. Domains can often be described only approximately by giving lower and upper bounds on the data available, because exact descriptions might be too complex and ineecient to deal with. This paper presents an alg...

Both content quality and market coverage have significant impacts on a network content provider’s revenue. In this paper, we present a preliminary study on how providers’ cooperation and adoption of special content can affect the content quality and market coverage. We first consider a baseline case, where providers have static contents and do not cooperate. We derive the providers’ coverages b...