Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

This paper surveys the emerging paradigm of cloud mobile media. We start with two
alternative perspectives for cloud mobile media networks: an end-to-end view and a layered …

With proliferation of smart phones and an increasing number of services provisioned by
clouds, it is commonplace for users to request cloud services from their mobile devices …

For over two decades, video streaming over the Internet has received a substantial amount
of attention from both academia and industry. Starting from the design of transport protocols …

The increasing popularity of online social networks (OSNs) has been transforming the
dissemination pattern of social video contents. We can utilize the social information …

While demands on video traffic over mobile networks have been souring, the wireless link
capacity cannot keep up with the traffic demand. The gap between the traffic demand and …

The emergence of cloud computing provides a cost-effective approach to deliver video
streams to a large number of end users with the desired user quality of experience (QoE) …

Nowadays, large-scale video distribution feeds a significant fraction of the global Internet
traffic. However, existing content delivery networks may not be cost efficient enough to …

For Internet video services, the high fluctuation of user demands in geographically
distributed regions results in low resource utilizations of traditional content distribution …

We present an architecture for the provision of video Content Delivery Network (CDN)
functionality as a service over a multi-domain cloud. We introduce the concept of a CDN …