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Edge Caching as Differentiation

Abdullah, Muhammad  
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Rehman, Mughees Ur
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Nikolopoulos, Pavlos  
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August 27, 2025
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference
39th Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication

Consider an end-user accessing two content providers, A and B, of the same type. If the end-user's ISP prioritizes A-traffic over B-traffic, the end-user may experience A-content with significantly better quality, and the ISP is said to apply "traffic differentiation." We observe that edge caching has a similar effect: if the end-user's ISP hosts a cache that serves A-content with higher hit rate than B-content, the end-user may experience A-content with significantly better quality. Hence, we examine caching as differentiation: We consider 5 popular caching providers, measure the hit rates with which they serve different content, and use the measurements to quantify the impact of edge caching on end-user Quality of Experience (QoE). We present the—in our opinion—surprising QoE disparities that result from edge caching and discuss their implications.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3718958.3754350
Author(s)
Abdullah, Muhammad  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Rehman, Mughees Ur
Nikolopoulos, Pavlos  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Argyraki, Katerina  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-08-27

Publisher

ACM

Publisher place

New York, NY, USA

Published in
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference
ISBN of the book

979-8-4007-1524-2

Start page

164

End page

183

Subjects

Edge caching

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Quality of Experience

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CDNs

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Video streaming

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
39th Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication

SIGCOMM '25

Coimbra, Portugal

2025-09-08 - 2025-09-11

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