Advanced Content Delivery, Streaming, and Cloud Services (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

Pathan, Mukaddim [Editor]; Sitaraman, Ramesh K. [Editor]; Robinson, Dom [Editor];

ISBN 10: 1118575210 / ISBN 13: 9781118575215

Published by Wiley-IEEE Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Advanced Content Delivery, Streaming, and Cloud Services (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118575210
• ISBN 13: 9781118575215
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

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 Author

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.