Web Content Delivery (eBook)

Xueyan Tang, Jianliang Xu, Samuel T. Chanson (Herausgeber)

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2006 | 2005
VIII, 394 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-27727-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Contents 6
Preface 8
I WEB CONTENT DELIVERY 10
Chapter 1 WEB WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION: TEN YEARS LATER 11
Chapter 2 REPLICA PLACEMENT AND REQUEST ROUTING 31
Chapter 3 THE TIME-O-LIVE BASED CONSISTENCY MECHANISM: 53
Chapter 4 CONTENT LOCATION IN PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS: EXPLOITING LOCALITY 81
II DYNAMIC WEB CONTENT 107
Chapter 5 TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENTLY SERVING AND CACHING DYNAMIC WEB CONTENT 109
Chapter 6 UTILITY COMPUTING FOR INTERNET APPLICATIONS 139
Chapter 7 PROXY CACHING FOR DATABASE-BACKED WEB SITES 161
III STREAMING MEDIA DELIVERY 184
Chapter 8 GENERATING INTERNET STREAMING MEDIA OBJECTS AND WORKLOADS 185
Chapter 9 STREAMING MEDIA CACHING 205
Chapter 10 POLICY- BASED RESOURCE SHARING IN STREAMING OVERLAY NETWORKS 223
Chapter 11 CACHING AND DISTRIBUTION ISSUES FOR STREAMING CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS 253
Chapter 12 PEER-TO-PEER ASSISTED STREAMING PROXY 273
IV UBIQUITOUS WEB ACCESS 291
Chapter 13 DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES FOR WEB CONTENT ADAPTATION AND DELIVERY 293
Chapter 14 WIRELESS WEB PERFORMANCE ISSUES 313
Chapter 15 WEB CONTENT DELIVERY USING THIN-CLIENT COMPUTING 333
Chapter 16 OPTIMIZING CONTENT DELIVERY IN WIRELESS NETWORKS 355
Chapter 17 MULTIMEDIA ADAPTATION AND BROWSING ON SMALL DISPLAYS 379
Index 401

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies Book Series
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 394 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Schlagworte: content delivery • content location • Database • Internet • Multimedia • proxy caching • Streaming Media • utility computing • Web • Web caching • web information management • Web Information Systems • Wireless
• ISBN-10: 0-387-27727-7 / 0387277277
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-27727-1 / 9780387277271