Network services underpin operator revenues, and value-added services provide income
beyond core (voice and data) infrastructure capability. Today, operators face multiple …

Peer-assisted content delivery networks have recently emerged as an economically viable
alternative to traditional content delivery approaches: the feasibility studies conducted for …

This paper has the following ambitious goal: to convince the reader that content caching is
an exciting research topic for the future communication systems and networks. Caching has …

The Follow-Me Cloud (FMC) concept enables service mobility across federated data centers
(DCs). Following the mobility of a mobile user, the service located in a given DC is migrated …

Many prior efforts have suggested that Internet video Quality of Experience (QoE) could be
dramatically improved by using data-driven prediction of video quality for different choices …

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 …

The Internet suffers from well-known performance, reliability, and security problems.
However, proposed improvements have seen little adoption due to the difficulties of Internet …

Live video delivery is expected to reach a peak of 50 Tbps this year. This surging popularity
is fundamentally changing the Internet video delivery landscape. CDNs must meet users' …

Since the commercialization of the Internet, content and related applications, including video
streaming, news, advertisements, and social interaction have moved online. It is broadly …

Network function (NF) virtualization decouples NFs from the underlying middlebox hardware
and promotes their deployment on virtualized network infrastructures. This essentially paves …