Advanced content delivery, streaming, and cloud services / editors, Mukaddim Pathan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Dom Robinson.

Includes index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"Provides market analysis as a valuable reference point for commercial entities interested in investing in the CDN business"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

""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""