Book -- Advanced Content Delivery and Streaming in the Cloud

Advanced Content Delivery and Streaming in the Cloud

LATEST: A tentative Table of Contents can be found here.

Introduction

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) evolved as a solution for Internet service degradations such as congestions and bottlenecks due to the large end-user demands posed on Web access services. Applications of CDNs can be found in many communities, such as social networking websites, audio and video streaming, academic institutions, advertising media and Internet advertisement companies, data centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), online music retailers, mobile operators, consumer electronics manufacturers, and other carrier companies. Along with the proliferation, formation, and consolidation of the CDN landscape and the introduction of Cloud computing, new forms of Internet content, services, and technologies are coming into picture; while distribution and management of content is introducing new challenges in this domain. This raises new issues in the architecture, core technology, development, and applications of CDNs. The proposed book aims to capture the technological trends in the content delivery domain to provide an exclusive research and development roadmap to the CDN community.

Objectives

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide on latest ideas and results in the content delivery domain. By reading this book, audience will have the following benefits:

Learn the state-of-the-art in research and development on content management, delivery and streaming technologies.
Obtain a future roadmap by learning open research issues.
Gather the background knowledge to tackle key problems, whose solutions will enhance the evolution of next-generation content networks.
Use the book as a valuable reference for a technical professional in a related industry.
Use the book as a text book in the late undergraduate or the graduate level to prepare students who intend to perform research in the field or intend to be employed in a related industry.

Topics of Interest

Topics for potential chapters include, but are not limited to:

Content Delivery Network (CDN) – Infrastructure, architecture and technology for Web content delivery, content management services and media streaming.
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR) – Techniques for multimedia streaming over computer networks using HTTP protocol.
Content Delivery Cloud (CDC) – Integration of Cloud computing with traditional CDN model for content and Web application delivery.
Cloud Acceleration – Web/application acceleration and transport acceleration.
Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization – Optimization algorithms to increasing data transfer efficiencies in an end-to-end delivery path across wide area networks.
Mobile Acceleration Service – Optimizing video streams to mobile devices to meet dynamic and personalized content needs of mobile users.
Transparent Caching – Carriers network caching technology to control over what content to cache, when to cache and how fast to accelerate the content delivery.
Request Routing Techniques – Known and advanced algorithms for redirecting end-user requests, such as energy-efficient routing, proximity routing, and content-based routing.
CDN performance, availability and reliability – SSL processing, network-based personal video recorder (PVR), and measurement techniques.
Next Generation CDNs – managed/licensed CDN, carrier CDNs, P2P CDN, and federated CDNs.
CDN Case Studies – Overview of operational infrastructure and services from the major CDNs.
CDN Business Intelligence – Market technology trends and capacity planning.

Important Dates

Chapter Proposal Due: October 15, 2012 (You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal describing the topic of your chapter. The proposal should include the chapter organization, anticipated number of pages of the final manuscript and brief biography of authors. Early submission is highly appreciated)

Notification of Proposal Acceptance/Rejection: November 15, 2012

Full Chapter Due: March 15, 2013

Notification of Chapter Acceptance/Rejection: June 15, 2013

Final Chapter Due: July 15, 2013

Manuscript Delivery to Publisher: July 30, 2013

Target Audience

The proposed book is aimed at a large audience including systems architects, practitioners, product developers, and researchers. It can be used as a reference/text-book for graduate students and roadmap for academicians, who are starting to research in the field of content delivery. We expect the readers to have at least the basic knowledge of Web technologies and the Internet. In particular, readers should be knowledgeable about Web caching, replication, Internet-based services and applications, and basic networking. This book will attract readers, who have ever been intrigued by the word “content networking” and are interested in finding out more. Upon reading this book, they will be the promoter and spokesperson of content networking technologies. The readers will be able to point to this book while initiating discussion, design, development, and be a feedback mechanism for the future improvements of the book. The content of this book will be 25% introductory, 25% advanced and 50% specialist.