NETWORK LOAD DISPERSION CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF

摘要

A common virtual content center is connected to a particular network apparatus among a plurality of network apparatuses constituting a network. When the number of content requesting accesses to a content provider connected to another particular network apparatus is increased, a content is transferred from the content provider to the common virtual content center. The common virtual content center is allocated to a user who corresponds to a virtual domain composed of network apparatuses including the network apparatus connected to the common virtual content center and who has made a content delivery request to a content provider. By instructing the content delivery from the common virtual content center, the load is dispersed. Thus, it is possible to increase the content providing ratio by using the common virtual content center to disperse the network load and the content provider can suppress business investment by using the network common facility.