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Web Content Delivery

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Editors:
  1. Xueyan Tang

    1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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  2. Jianliang Xu

    1. Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

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  3. Samuel T. Chanson

    1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

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  • Provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research and global development activities on web content delivery
  • Lays the foundations for future web applications
  • Focuses on recent advances that are driven by emerging content types and system architectures
  • Focuses in particular on content delivery in four main areas: web, dynamic, streaming media and wireless

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Web Content Delivery

    1. Web Workload Characterization: Ten Years Later

      • Adepele Williams, Martin Arlitt, Carey Williamson, Ken Barker
      Pages 3-21

    2. Replica Placement and Request Routing

      • Magnus Karlsson
      Pages 23-43

    3. The Time-to-Live Based Consistency Mechanism:

      • Edith Cohen, Haim Kaplan
      Pages 45-71

    4. Content Location in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Exploiting Locality

      • Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Hui Zhang
      Pages 73-97

  3. Dynamic Web Content

    1. Techniques for Efficiently Serving and Caching Dynamic Web Content

      • Arun Iyengar, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Bianca Schroeder
      Pages 101-130

    2. Utility Computing for Internet Applications

      • Claudia Canali, Michael Rabinovich, Zhen Xiao
      Pages 131-151

    3. Proxy Caching for Database-Backed Web Sites

      • Qiong Luo
      Pages 153-174

  4. Streaming Media Delivery

    1. Generating Internet Streaming Media Objects and Workloads

      • Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros
      Pages 177-196

    2. Streaming Media Caching

      • Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 197-214

    3. Policy-Based Resource Sharing in Streaming Overlay Networks

      • K. Selçuk Candan, Yusuf Akca, Wen-Syan Lit
      Pages 215-244

    4. Caching and Distribution Issues for Streaming Content Distribution Networks

      • Michael Zink, Prashant Shenoy
      Pages 246-263

    5. Peer-to-Peer Assisted Streaming Proxy

      • Lei Guo, Xiaodong Zhang, Songqing Chen
      Pages 265-281

  5. Ubiquitous Web Access

    1. Distributed Architectures for Web Content Adaptation and Delivery

      • Michele Colajanni, Riccardo Lancellotti, Philip S. Yu
      Pages 285-304

    2. Wireless Web Performance Issues

      • Carey Williamson
      Pages 305-324

    3. Web Content Delivery Using Thin-Client Computing

      • Albert M. Lai, Jason Nieh
      Pages 325-345

    4. Optimizing Content Delivery in Wireless Networks

      • Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez
      Pages 347-369

    5. Multimedia Adaptation and Browsing on Small Displays

      • Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma
      Pages 371-391

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 393-394
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About this book

The concept of content delivery (also known as content distribution) is be­ coming increasingly important due to rapidly growing demands for efficient distribution and fast access of information in the Internet. Content delivery is very broad and comprehensive in that the contents for distribution cover a wide range of types with significantly different characteristics and performance concerns, including HTML documents, images, multimedia streams, database tables, and dynamically generated contents. Moreover, to facilitate ubiqui­ tous information access, the network architectures and hardware devices also vary widely. They range from broadband wired/fixed networks to bandwid- constrained wireless/mobile networks, and from powerful workstations/PCs to personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cellular phones with limited processing and display capabilities. All these levels of diversity are introducing numerous challenges on content delivery technologies. It is desirable to deliver contents in their best quality based on the nature of the contents, network connections and client devices. This book aims at providing a snapshot of the state-of-the-art research and development activities on web content delivery and laying the foundations for future web applications. The book focuses on four main areas: (1) web con­ tent delivery; (2) dynamic web content; (3) streaming media delivery; and (4) ubiquitous web access. It consists of 17 chapters written by leading experts in the field. The book is designed for a professional audience including academic researchers and industrial practitioners who are interested in the most recent research and development activities on web content delivery.

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From the reviews:

"This book is devoted to content delivery, also known as content distribution. … This is a specialized book that will appeal to researchers interested in multimedia services issues, particularly Web content delivery. For those in this research community, it will be very valuable." (Mario Freire, Computing Reviews, August, 2006)

"This book is a collection of academic papers. These have been written by leading researchers around the world and assembled by the editors as a representation of the state-of-the-art in web content delivery. … The book is professionally produced, clearly printed and well laid out. … it is reasonably sized for easy transportation, so could be a companion on a long journey to a conference. … It should certainly grace the computer-science shelf of any self-respecting university library." (Andrew Neill, Informer, Spring, 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Xueyan Tang

  • Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

    Jianliang Xu

  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

    Samuel T. Chanson

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