A global content delivery plays an important role in the current Internet. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a future internet architecture which attempts to redesign the Internet with a focus on the content delivery. However, it has the potential performance degradation in the global content delivery. In this paper, we propose an ICN performance enhancing proxy (ICN-PEP) to mitigate this performance degradation. The key idea is to prefetch Data packets and to serve them to the consumer with the shorter round trip time. By utilizing ICN features, it can be developed as an offline and state-less proxy which has an advantage of scalability. We evaluate the performance of ICN-PEP in both simulation and experiment on global testbed and show that ICN-PEP improves the performance of global content delivery.

In order to improve TCP performance, the use of a PEP (Performance Enhancing Proxy) has been proposed. The PEP operates on a router along a TCP connection. When a data packet arrives at the PEP, it forwards the packet to the destination host, transmits the corresponding ACK (premature ACK) to the source host on behalf of the destination host, and stores a copy of the packet in a local buffer (PEP buffer) in case the packet needs to be retransmitted. In this paper, in accordance with a strategy that keeps the number of prematurely acknowledged packets in the PEP buffer below a fixed threshold (watermark) value, we investigate the relation between the watermark value and the average throughput. Extensive simulations show that the results can be roughly classified into two cases. In the first case, the average throughput becomes larger for larger watermark values and becomes a constant value when the watermark value is over a certain value. In the second case, although the average throughput becomes larger for lager watermark value in the same way, it decreases when the watermark value is over a certain value. We also show that the latter (former) case can occur more easily as the propagation delay in the input side network of the PEP becomes smaller (larger) and the propagation delay in the output side network of the PEP becomes larger (smaller), and also show that the latter (former) case can occur more easily as the transmission speed in the input side network becomes larger (smaller) and the transmission speed in the output side network becomes smaller (larger) while the PEP buffer capacity becomes smaller (larger).

It is well known that deploying a proxy at the boundary of wireless networks and the Internet is able to improve the performance of transmission control protocol (TCP) over wireless links. Snoop protocol, acting like a transport layer proxy, performs local retransmissions for packets corrupted by wireless channel errors. In this letter, an improvement for the Snoop protocol is proposed to shorten the time spent on local recovery by sending extra copies in every local retransmission attempt. This enables TCP to quickly return to normal, effectively eliminating several of the problems that may cause throughput degradation.