Web Content Delivery

by Tang, Xueyan; Xu, Jianliang; Chanson, Samuel T.

• ISBN13: 9780387243566
• ISBN10: 0387243569
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

The concept of content delivery has become increasingly more important due to rapidly growing demands for efficient distribution and fast access of information from the Internet. The content can be diverse and broad-ranging, and the desire to facilitate ubiquitous information access demands varied network architectures and hardware devices. The need to deliver quality information - given the nature of the content, network connections and client devices - introduces various challenges for content delivery technologies. Web Content Delivery offers the most comprehensive coverage of state-of-the-art research, providing insightful and thought-provoking possibilities for the future of web applications. Written by leading international researchers, the book focuses on web content delivery, dynamic web content, streaming media delivery and ubiquitous web access. Web Content Delivery is an essential reference for both academic researchers and industrial practitioners.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I Web Content Delivery
Web Workload Characterization: Ten Years Later	3	(20)
Adepele Williams
Martin Arlitt
Carey Williamson
Ken Barker
Replica Placement and Request Routing	23	(22)
Magnus Karlsson
The Time-to-Live Based Consistency Mechanism	45	(28)
Edith Cohen
Haim Kaplan
Content Location in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Exploiting Locality	73	(28)
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai
Hui Zhang
Part II Dynamic Web Content
Techniques for Efficiently Serving and Caching Dynamic Web Content	101	(30)
Arun Iyengar
Lakshmish Ramaswamy
Bianca Schroeder
Utility Computing for Internet Applications	131	(22)
Claudia Canali
Michael Rabinovich
Zhen Xiao
Proxy Caching for Database-Backed Web Sites	153	(24)
Qiong Luo
Part III Streaming Media Delivery
Generating Internet Streaming Media Objects and Workloads	177	(20)
Shudong Jin
Azer Bestavros
Streaming Media Caching	197	(18)
Jiangchuan Liu
Policy-Based Resource Sharing in Streaming Overlay Networks	215	(30)
K. Selcuk Candan
Yusuf Akca
Wen-Syan Li
Caching and Distribution Issues for Streaming Content Distribution Networks	245	(20)
Michael Zink
Prashant Shenoy
Peer-to-Peer Assisted Streaming Proxy	265	(20)
Lei Guo
Songqing Chen
Xiaodong Zhang
Part IV Ubiquitous Web Access
Distributed Architectures for Web Content Adaptation and Delivery	285	(20)
Michele Colajanni
Riccardo Lancellotti
Philip S. Yu
Wireless Web Performance Issues	305	(20)
Carey Williamson
Web Content Delivery Using Thin-Client Computing	325	(22)
Albert M. Lai
Jason Nieh
Optimizing Content Delivery in Wireless Networks	347	(24)
Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez
Multimedia Adaptation and Browsing on Small Displays	371
Xing Xie
Wei-Ying Ma