Advanced Content Delivery, Streaming, and Cloud Services

As the subject area of CDN gains research interest and momentum, it is crucial to stay up-to-date with recent developments of its evolutionary track, as well as the current landscape and roadmap. This book provides performance models, case studies, business analyses, and several other important components, so practicing engineers and academics can use the text as a timely reference.

• 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

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.