Advanced Content Delivery, Streaming, and Cloud Services.

Cover -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- 1.1 Overview and Scope of the Book -- 1.2 Organization of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part I: CDN and Media Streaming Basics -- Chapter 1: Cloud-Based Content Delivery and Streaming -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 CDN Overview -- 1.3 Workings of a CDN -- 1.4 CDN Trends -- 1.5 Research Issues -- 1.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Live Streaming Ecosystems -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Live Streaming Pre-Evolution -- 2.3 Live, Linear, Nonlinear -- 2.4 Media Streaming -- 2.5 Related Network Models -- 2.6 Streaming Protocol Success -- 2.7 Platform Divergence and Codec Convergence -- 2.8 Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Streaming -- 2.9 Internet Radio and HTTP -- 2.10 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Practical Systems for Live Streaming -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Common Concepts in Live Streaming -- 3.3 The Practicals -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Efficiency of Caching and Content Delivery in Broadband Access Networks -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Options and Properties for Web Caching -- 4.3 Zipf Laws for Requests to Popular Content -- 4.4 Efficiency and Performance Modeling for Caches -- 4.5 Effect of Replacement Strategies on Cache Hit Rates -- 4.6 Replacement Methods Based on Request Statistics -- 4.7 Global CDN And P2P Overlays for Content Delivery -- 4.8 Summary and Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5: Anycast Request Routing for Content Delivery Networks -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 CDN Request Routing: An Overview -- 5.3 A Practical Load-Aware IP Anycast CDN -- 5.4 Mapping Algorithms -- 5.5 Evaluation -- 5.6 IPv6 Anycast CDN -- 5.7 Discussion and Open Questions -- 5.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Cloud-Based Content Delivery to Home Ecosystems -- 6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Bringing Cloud Services to Home: State of The Art -- 6.3 Virtualizing The Access Network Infrastructure -- 6.4 Virtualization for Cloud Service Delivery to Home -- 6.5 Future Trends -- 6.6 Summary and Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7: Mobile Video Streaming -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Mobile Broadband Architecture -- 7.3 Video Streaming Protocols -- 7.4 Video Optimization Services -- 7.5 Operator-Hosted Cdn -- 7.6 Cloud-Based Video Streaming -- 7.7 Future Research Directions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II: CDN Performance Management and Optimization -- Chapter 8: CDN Analytics: A Primer -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Why Measure? -- 8.3 What Do We Measure? -- 8.4 What About Business Intelligence? -- 8.5 Measuring Stateless Delivery -- 8.6 Billing Analytics -- 8.7 CDN Analytics Tools -- 8.8 Recent Trends in CDN Analytics -- 8.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: CDN Modeling -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Basics on Mathematical Modeling and Optimization -- 9.3 Video-on-Demand Applications -- 9.4 Optimization Problems in Content Delivery and VoD Services -- 9.5 Visionary Thoughts for Practitioners -- 9.6 Future Research Directions -- 9.7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10: Analyzing Content Delivery Networks -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Previous Work -- 10.3 Basic CDN Model -- 10.4 Enhancing The Model -- 10.5 Performance Evaluation -- 10.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11: Multisource Stream Aggregation in the Cloud -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Terminologies -- 11.3 Background and Related Work -- 11.4 The Substream Method in the Cloud -- 11.5 Stream Aggregation in the Cloud -- 11.6 Models -- 11.7 Analysis -- 11.8 Visionary Thoughts for Practitioners -- 11.9 Future Research Directions -- 11.10 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Beyond CDN: Content Processing at the Edge of the Cloud.

12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Existing Content Delivery Platforms -- 12.3 Comparison of Existing Content Delivery Platforms -- 12.4 An Edge Cloud-Based Model -- 12.5 Results and Insights -- 12.6 Future Research Directions -- 12.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Dynamic Reconfiguration for Adaptive Streaming -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Background and Related Work -- 13.3 Dynamic Server Deployment -- 13.4 From Content Delivery to Streaming -- 13.5 Future Research Directions -- 13.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 14: Mining Distributed Data Streams on Content Delivery Networks -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Background and Related Work -- 14.3 A Hybrid Multidomain Architecture -- 14.4 A Prototype for Stream Mining in a CDN -- 14.5 Visionary Thoughts for Practitioners -- 14.6 Future Research Directions -- 14.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: CDN Capacity Planning -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Capacity Planning Process -- 15.3 Undertaking the Capacity Planning Process -- 15.4 CDN Capacity Planning Case Study -- 15.5 Recent Developments and Challenges -- 15.6 Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Case Studies and Next Generation CDNs -- Chapter 16: Overlay Networks: An Akamai Perspective -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Background -- 16.3 Caching Overlays -- 16.4 Routing Overlays -- 16.5 Security Overlays -- 16.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17: Next-Generation CDNs: A CB Perspective -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Carrier CDNs -- 17.3 Managed CDNs -- 17.4 Federated CDNs -- 17.5 Licensed CDNs -- 17.6 Case Study: CoBlitz -- 17.7 CoBlitz Commercialization -- 17.8 Implications of HTTP Adaptive Streaming -- 17.9 CoBlitz Commercialization Lessons -- 17.10 CDN Industry Directions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 18: Content Delivery in China: A ChinaCache Perspective -- 18.1 Introduction.

18.2 Content-Aware Network Services in China -- 18.3 Directions for Future CDN Research and Trends in China -- 18.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 19: PlatonTV: A Scientific High Definition Content Delivery Platform -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 Background and Related Work -- 19.3 PlatonTV Architecture -- 19.4 Content Ingest -- 19.5 Content Distribution and Management -- 19.6 Content Delivery -- 19.7 Availability and Reliability -- 19.8 Visionary Thoughts for Practitioners -- 19.9 Future Research Directions -- 19.10 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 20: CacheCast: A Single-Source Multiple-Destination Caching Mechanism -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Related Work -- 20.3 CacheCast Overview -- 20.4 Background on Multidestination Traffic -- 20.5 CacheCast Design -- 20.6 CacheCast Efficiency -- 20.7 CacheCast Applications -- 20.8 Visionary Thoughts for Practitioners -- 20.9 Future Research Directions -- 20.10 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 21: Content Replication and Delivery in Information-Centric Networks -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 Related Work -- 21.3 Framework for Information Replication in ICN -- 21.4 Performance Evaluation -- 21.5 Future Research Directions -- 21.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 22: Robust Content Broadcasting in Vehicular Networks -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 Vehicular Networks -- 22.3 Forward Error Correction Techniques -- 22.4 A Robust Broadcast-Based Content Delivery System -- 22.5 CDS Simulation in NS-3 -- 22.6 Performance Evaluation -- 22.7 Future Research Trends -- 22.8 Summary and Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 23: On the Impact of Online Social Networks in Content Delivery -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 Online Social Networks Background -- 23.3 Characterization of Social Cascades -- 23.4 Online Social Network Measurements.

23.5 Systems -- 23.6 Future Research Directions -- 23.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index -- Series -- End User License Agreement.

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