Dear Colleagues, Please consider contributing to the book: Advanced Content Delivery and Streaming in the Cloud, to be published by Wiley Publishers, USA. The call for book chapter can be found later in this email. Interested contributors are requested to visit the book website and check the tentative table of contents before submitting a chapter proposal.
Best regards, Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Akamai & University of Massachusetts, USA Dom Robinson, id3as-company / D2Consulting Ltd, UK **************************************************************** Advanced Content Delivery and Streaming in the Cloud Publisher: Wiley Press, New York, USA **************************************************************** Introduction ============ Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) evolved as a solution for Internet service degradations such as congestions and bottlenecks due to the large end-user demands posed on Web access services. Applications of CDNs can be found in many communities, such as social networking websites, audio and video streaming, academic institutions, advertising media and Internet advertisement companies, data centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), online music retailers, mobile operators, consumer electronics manufacturers, and other carrier companies. Along with the proliferation, formation, and consolidation of the CDN landscape and the introduction of Cloud computing, new forms of Internet content, services, and technologies are coming into picture; while distribution and management of content is introducing new challenges in this domain. This raises new issues in the architecture, core technology, development, and applications of CDNs. The proposed book aims to capture the technological trends in the content delivery domain to provide an exclusive research and development roadmap to the CDN community. Book Website ============= URL: http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/advanced-CDN-book/ Email: [email protected] Objectives ========== The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide on latest ideas and results in the content delivery domain. By reading this book, audience will have the following benefits: * Learn the state-of-the-art in research and development on content management, delivery and streaming technologies. * Obtain a future roadmap by learning open research issues. * Gather the background knowledge to tackle key problems, whose solutions will enhance the evolution of next-generation content networks. * Use the book as a valuable reference for a technical professional in a related industry. * Use the book as a text book in the late undergraduate or the graduate level to prepare students who intend to perform research in the field or intend to be employed in a related industry. Topics of Interest =================== Topics for potential chapters include, but are not limited to: * Content Delivery Network (CDN) – Infrastructure, architecture and technology for Web content delivery, content management services and media streaming. * Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR) – Techniques for multimedia streaming over computer networks using HTTP protocol. * Content Delivery Cloud (CDC) – Integration of Cloud computing with traditional CDN model for content and Web application delivery. * Cloud Acceleration – Web/application acceleration and transport acceleration. * Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization – Optimization algorithms to increasing data transfer efficiencies in an end-to-end delivery path across wide area networks. * Mobile Acceleration Service – Optimizing video streams to mobile devices to meet dynamic and personalized content needs of mobile users. * Transparent Caching – Carriers network caching technology to control over what content to cache, when to cache and how fast to accelerate the content delivery. * Request Routing Techniques – Known and advanced algorithms for redirecting end-user requests, such as energy-efficient routing, proximity routing, and content-based routing. * CDN performance, availability and reliability – SSL processing, network-based personal video recorder (PVR), and measurement techniques. * Next Generation CDNs – managed/licensed CDN, carrier CDNs, P2P CDN, and federated CDNs. * CDN Case Studies – Overview of operational infrastructure and services from the major CDNs. * CDN Business Intelligence – Market technology trends and capacity planning. Important Dates =============== Chapter Proposal Due: October 15, 2012 (You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal describing the topic of your chapter. The proposal should include the chapter organization, anticipated number of pages of the final manuscript and brief biography of authors. Early submission is highly appreciated) Notification of Proposal Acceptance/Rejection: November 15, 2012 Full Chapter Due: March 15, 2013 Notification of Chapter Acceptance/Rejection: May 15, 2013 Final Chapter Due: June 15, 2013 Manuscript Delivery to Publisher: July 30, 2013 Target Audience ================ The proposed book is aimed at a large audience including systems architects, practitioners, product developers, and researchers. It can be used as a reference/text-book for graduate students and roadmap for academicians, who are starting to research in the field of content delivery. We expect the readers to have at least the basic knowledge of Web technologies and the Internet. In particular, readers should be knowledgeable about Web caching, replication, Internet-based services and applications, and basic networking. This book will attract readers, who have ever been intrigued by the word “content networking” and are interested in finding out more. Upon reading this book, they will be the promoter and spokesperson of content networking technologies. The readers will be able to point to this book while initiating discussion, design, development, and be a feedback mechanism for the future improvements of the book. The content of this book will be 25% introductory, 25% advanced and 50% specialist. Submission Instructions Proposal Submission: Proposal should not exceed three A4 pages and must include title, authors, chapter organization and proposed content in each section. Proposals should be submitted using the EasyChair Submission System or by email to the corresponding editor. Final manuscript submission: Each accepted chapter must not exceed 25 pages in final camera-ready format. Please use attached MS Word template (http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/advanced-CDN-book/template&guide.zip) and Author's Guide or please download the Word style files from http://www.wiley.com/authors/guidelines/stmguides.html for preparing your chapter for submission to the publisher. We expect to receive significant, high quality, and innovative contributions that are not yet fully published or that are not currently under review elsewhere. To make the book accessible to larger audience, contributions from the authors can also be based on the concepts learned from previously published works. The book is intended to be used as graduate level courseware. Therefore, each chapter should be written as tutorial type, rather than as a conference paper. Each chapter should include the following mandatory sections (with exact heading) among others of choice of the authors: keywords (at least 5, not more than 10), introduction, background/related work, visionary thoughts for practitioners, future research directions, conclusion, and references. Submission of a chapter for review would imply the readiness of the author(s) to publish the chapter in the book. Early submission is highly appreciated as the editors would like to have progressive dialogue and work with prospective authors to bring out a book of wide appeal. Authors of accepted chapters would be required to sign an agreement of copyright transfer and an originality statement to the publisher. Editors Contact Details ======================== Mukaddim Pathan (Corresponding Editor) Technology Specialist - Content Delivery Networks Telstra Corporation Limited 21/35 Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Ramesh K. Sitaraman Akamai Fellow Professor, Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA Email: [email protected] Dom Robinson Director Innovation id3as-company / D2Consulting Ltd 20 Rowan Way, Rottingdean, Brighton, Sussex, UK Email: [email protected] -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Mukaddim Pathan Technology Specialist - Content Delivery Networks Telstra Corporation Limited 21/35 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia Contact: +61-3-8647 9662 (Office) E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://cecs.anu.edu.au/~mukaddim.pathan _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
