Advanced Content Delivery, Streaming, and Cloud Services [Hardcover]

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

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xxi

Contributors xxiii

PART I CDN AND MEDIA STREAMING BASICS 1

1 CLOUD-BASED CONTENT DELIVERY AND STREAMING 3
Mukaddim Pathan

1.1 Introduction 3

1.2 CDN Overview 5

1.3 Workings of a CDN 10

1.4 CDN Trends 21

1.5 Research Issues 28

1.6 Conclusion 29

References 29

2 LIVE STREAMING ECOSYSTEMS 33
Dom Robinson

2.1 Introduction 33

2.2 Live Streaming Pre-Evolution 34