Video-on-demand streaming services have gained popularity over the past few years. An
increase in the speed of the access networks has also led to a larger number of users …

Content delivery networks must balance a number of trade-offs when deciding how to direct
a client to a CDN server. Whereas DNS-based redirection requires a complex global traffic …

Performance of online applications directly impacts user satisfaction. A major component of
the user-perceived performance of the application is the time spent in transit between the …

Over the past decade, content delivery networks (CDNs) have attracted substantial Internet
traffic and improved quality of experience for Internet users. However, the evolution of the …

We propose and present CONIA, a novel content (provider)-oriented, namespace-
independent architecture for multimedia information delivery. CONIA is designed specifically …

Large-scale video on demand (VOD) services use hard disk drives (HDDs) to store large
video files. However, VOD performance is limited by the relatively low bandwidth access and …

Elasticity and cost-effectiveness are two key features for ensuring that cloud-based web
services appeal to more businesses. However, true elasticity and cost-effectiveness in the …

HTTP based online video streaming services have been consistently dominating the online
traffic for the past few years. Measuring and improving the performance of these services is …

Popularizations of Video-On-Demand (VOD) services cause explosive and continuous
growth of the Internet traffic. Web cache servers are widely utilized fot reducing such VOD …

Content service is an important type of Internet service to provide various contents to the end-
users. To ensure the performance for content delivering, content service providers utilize a …