Advanced Content Delivery, Streaming, and Cloud Services

As the subject area of CDN gains research interest and momentum, it is crucial to stay up-to-date with recent developments of its evolutionary track, as well as the current landscape and roadmap. This book provides performance models, case studies, business analyses, and several other important components, so practicing engineers and academics can use the text as a timely reference.

• Provides an in-depth look at Cloud-based CDNs
• Includes CDN and streaming media basics and tutorials
• Aimed to instruct systems architects, practitioners, product developers, and researchers
• Material is divided into introductory subjects, advanced content, and specialist areas

Table of Contents

Part I CDN and Media Streaming Basics
Chapter 1 Cloud-Based Content Delivery and Streaming
Chapter 2 Live Streaming Ecosystems
Chapter 4 Efficiency of Caching and Content Delivery in Broadband Access Networks
Chapter 5 Anycast Request Routing for Content Delivery Networks
Chapter 6 Cloud-Based Content Delivery to Home Ecosystems
Chapter 7 Mobile Video Streaming

Part II CDN Performance Management and Optimization
Chapter 8 CDN Analytics: A Primer
Chapter 9 CDN Modeling
Chapter 10 Analyzing Content Delivery Networks
Chapter 11 Multisource Stream Aggregation in the Cloud
Chapter 12 Beyond CDN: Content Processing at the Edge of the Cloud
Chapter 13 Dynamic Reconfiguration for Adaptive Streaming
Chapter 14 Mining Distributed Data Streams on Content Delivery Networks
Chapter 15 CDN Capacity Planning

Part III Case Studies and Next Generation CDNs
Chapter 16 Overlay Networks: An Akamai Perspective
Chapter 17 Next-Generation CDNs: A CoBlitz Perspective
Chapter 18 Content Delivery in China: A ChinaCache Perspective
Chapter 19 PlatonTV: A Scientific High Definition Content Delivery Platform
Chapter 20 CacheCast: A Single-Source Multiple-Destination Caching Mechanism
Chapter 21 Content Replication and Delivery in Information-Centric Networks
Chapter 22 Robust Content Broadcasting in Vehicular Networks
Chapter 23 On the Impact of Online Social Networks in Content Delivery