Proactivity in content delivery networks resource management: The stock options case

Resource Management for Content Delivery Extended Abstract

Delivery over the Internet is a popular form of content dissemination today, as seen by the popularity of sites such as YouTube and iTunes. Such content delivery requires the purchase of large amounts of transit bandwidth, which is expensive. There is an increasing trend for content distributors to use P2P methods in order to reduce costs, and several distributers, such as Akamai–Red-Swoosh and...

Web-Based Management of Content Delivery Networks

Abstract overlay networks have been considered enablers of efficient management for decentralized, large scale service deployments. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is an example of service falling within this category. The result of our research is WebDMF, a management framework for distributed services based on the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) family of specifications. Abstract desi...

Using Real Options Theory to Evaluate Strategic Investment Options for Mobile Content Delivery: A Case Study

With a rich fare of localized content, but limited regional media outlet channels, mobile content generates new business opportunities for Media News, a small media company with considerable growth potential. Two business models are considered: partnering with wireless service providers and strategic alliances with mobile content syndicators. First, the models are evaluated based on their resou...

Content Delivery Networks - Preamble

Content Delivery Networks

This document reports experimental results on the delivery of HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) content over interconnected Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Specifically, the implications of CDN request routing between CDNs and HTTP redirection on the quality of delivered HAS content are investigated.