[Tccc] Call for Chapters: Advanced Content Delivery a...

Mukaddim Pathan al_mukaddimatyahoo.com.au
Sat Sep 1 01:03:40 EDT 2012



 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



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Advanced Content Delivery and Streaming in the Cloud

Publisher: Wiley Press, New York, USA
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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
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URL: http://www.cloudbus.org/cdn/advanced-CDN-book/
Email: acdn2... at easychair.org

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: mukaddim.pat... at team.telstra.com; al.mukad... at gmail.com

Ramesh K. Sitaraman
Akamai Fellow
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA
Email: ram... at cs.umass.edu 

Dom Robinson
Director Innovation
id3as-company / D2Consulting Ltd
20 Rowan Way, Rottingdean, Brighton, Sussex, UK
Email: d... at d2consulting.co.uk



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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: mukaddim.pat... at team.telstra.com
Web: http://cecs.anu.edu.au/~mukaddim.pathan
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