Context adaptation for content delivery based on architectural patterns in telecommunication networks

International audienceWhile the architectural pattern approach is becoming a best practice shared by many industry sectors, telecommunication companies are currently facing the challenge of designing increasingly complex systems in a constantly evolving ecosystem. Our objective is to reuse the concepts of software patterns to transcend the network end-to-end architecture studies. Firstly, the use of architectural patterns at the functional level leads to an easier, faster and safer design process. Secondly, the model is user-friendly since architects are helped by a simpler architecture design method. Thus, our contributionproposes a design based on architectural patterns adaptation by combining: a best choicealgorithm, an architectural context adaptation and a set of rules. We chose the current hottopic of content delivery over Internet Protocol networks to illustrate the architecturalpattern concept