Content Delivery in Wireless Wide Area Networks

A wireless client device in a wireless network communicatively coupled to a content delivery network, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory including a set of instructions stored thereon and executable by the processor for:
• listening to transmissions from other wireless client devices in the wireless network for determining a local wireless network topology of wireless client devices;
• transmitting the local wireless network topology to a server in the content delivery network;
• transmitting a request for content to the server;
• receiving a message from the server via the wireless network, the message indicating at least one source wireless client device in the local wireless network topology that contains the content;
• and
• receiving the content from the at least one source wireless client device via a peer-to-peer link in the wireless network.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions for enabling communication by a wireless client device in a wireless network coupled to a content delivery network, the one or more instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• listen to transmissions from other wireless client devices in the wireless network for determining a local wireless network topology of wireless client devices;
• transmit the local wireless network topology to a server in the content delivery network;
• transmit a request for content to the server;
• receive a message from the server via the wireless network, the message indicating at least one source wireless client device in the local wireless network topology that contains the content;
• and
• responsive to the message, configure the wireless client device for receiving the content from the at least one source wireless client device via a peer-to-peer link in the wireless network.