CDNs improve network performance and offer fast and reliable applications and services by
distributing content to cache servers located close to users. The Web's growth has …

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have evolved to overcome the inherent limitations of the
Internet in terms of user perceived Quality of Service (QoS) when accessing Web content. A …

Due to the existence of multiple stakeholders with conflicting goals and policies, alterations
to the existing Internet architecture are now limited to simple incremental updates; …

The multi-armed bandit problem for a gambler is to decide which arm of a K-slot machine to
pull to maximize his total reward in a series of trials. Many real-world learning and …

Over the years, the web has evolved from simple text content from one server to a complex
ecosystem with different types of content from servers spread across several administrative …

Network traffic measurements provide essential data for networking research and network
management. In this article we describe a passive monitoring system designed to capture …

In the span of only a few years, the Internet has experienced an astronomical increase in the
use of specialized content delivery systems, such as content delivery networks and peer-to …

The research and development (R&D) and the standardization of the 5th Generation (5G)
mobile networking technologies are proceeding at a rapid pace all around the world. In this …

We present the first empirical study of fast-flux service networks (FFSNs), a newly emerging
and still not widelyknown phenomenon in the Internet. FFSNs employ DNS to establish a …

One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …