Advanced Content Delivery, Streaming, and Cloud Services
- 9h 50m
- Dom Robinson, Mukaddim Pathan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2014
While other books on the market provide limited coverage of advanced CDNs and streaming technologies, concentrating solely on the fundamentals, this book provides an up-to-date comprehensive coverage of the state-of-the-art advancements in CDNs, with a special focus on Cloud-based CDNs. The book includes CDN and media streaming basics, performance models, practical applications, and business analysis. It features industry case studies, CDN applications, and open research issues to aid practitioners and researchers, and a market analysis to provide a reference point for commercial entities. The book covers Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR), Content Delivery Cloud (CDC), Web Acceleration, Front End Optimization (FEO), Transparent Caching, Next Generation CDNs, CDN Business Intelligence and more.
- 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
About the Authors
Mukaddim Pathan, PhD, is a Senior Specialist of Content Delivery Networks at Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia. He contributed in the development of MetaCDN, a Cloud-based CDN.
Ramesh K. Sitaraman, is a computer science professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He is best known for his role in pioneering the first large content delivery networks. He helped create Akamai's distributed network and is an Akamai Fellow.
Dom Robinson is the co-Founder and Director of Innovations at ide3as-company, UK. TVConnect 2014 awarded him as one of the 100 most influential people worldwide in TV and Media.
In this Book
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Cloud-Based Content Delivery and Streaming
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Live Streaming Ecosystems
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Practical Systems for Live Streaming
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Efficiency of Caching and Content Delivery in Broadband Access Networks
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Anycast Request Routing for Content Delivery Networks
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Cloud-Based Content Delivery to Home Ecosystems
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Mobile Video Streaming
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CDN Analytics—A Primer
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CDN Modeling
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Analyzing Content Delivery Networks
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Multisource Stream Aggregation in the Cloud
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Beyond CDN—Content Processing at the Edge of the Cloud
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Dynamic Reconfiguration for Adaptive Streaming
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Mining Distributed Data Streams on Content Delivery Networks
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CDN Capacity Planning
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Overlay Networks—An Akamai Perspective
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Next-Generation CDN—A CB Perspective
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Content Delivery in China—A ChinaCache Perspective
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PlatonTV—A Scientific High Definition Content Delivery Platform
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CacheCast—A Single-Source Multiple-Destination Caching Mechanism
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Content Replication and Delivery in Information-Centric Networks
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Robust Content Broadcasting in Vehicular Networks
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On the Impact of Online Social Networks in Content Delivery
