Advanced content delivery, streaming, and cloud services

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 Models2.6 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 Content4.4 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 CDN5.7 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 Services7.5 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