Content Networking

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 The early days of content delivery over the Internet
1.2 The World Wide Web – where it came from, what it is
1.3 The evolution of content networking
1.4 The diversity of interests in content networking

Chapter 2 Content Transport
2.1 Protocol architecture and design paradigms of the Internet
2.2 The Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP)
2.3 Multicast transport

Chapter 3 Caching Techniques for Web Content
3.1 Local Caching
3.2 Motivation and Goals of Web Caching
3.3 Basic Operation of a Shared Web Cache
3.4 Cachability Considerations
3.5 Placing a Cache in the Network
3.6 The Evolution of Caching Systems - Networks of Caches
3.7 Performance
3.8 Caching Challenges and Myths

Chapter 4 Caching Techniques for Streaming Media
4.1 Streaming Media
4.2 Protocols for Streaming Media
4.3 Caching Techniques for Streaming Media
4.4 Case studies

Chapter 5 Navigating Content Networks
5.1 The Domain Name System
5.2 Layer 4-7 Request Switching
5.3 Global Request Routing
5.4 Case studies

Chapter 6 Peer-to-Peer Content Networks
6.1 What are Peer-to-Peer networks?
6.2 Technical Challenges in Peer to Peer Networks
6.3 6.4 Case Studies
6.5 Business aspects

Chapter 7 Interactive Content Delivery - Instant Messaging
7.1 Instant Messaging defined
7.2 Internet-based Instant Messaging
7.3 Convergence

Chapter 8 Beyond Web Surfing – Content Services
8.1 What is Driving Content Services?
8.2 An Architecture for Content Services
8.3 Example Content Services
8.4 ICAP – The Internet Content Adaptation Protocol
8.5 Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES)
8.6 The Web Services paradigm
8.7 Service Personalization and Service Convergence

Chapter 9 Building Content Networks
9.1 Campus and Enterprise Network Example
9.2 Content Network Provider Example
9.3 Content Distribution Network Example

Chapter 10 Standards Efforts
10.1 The Role of Standards
10.2 Content Networking Standards Bodies
10.3 Content Networking Standards

Chapter 11 Summary and Outlook
11.1 Content Networking Architecture Evolution
11.2 The Future of Content Networking

As the Internet has grown, so have the challenges associated with delivering static, streaming, and dynamic content to end-users. This book is unique in that it addresses the topic of content networking exclusively and comprehensively, tracing the evolution from traditional web caching to today's open and vastly more flexible architecture. With this evolutionary approach, the authors emphasize the field's most persistent concepts, principles, and mechanisms--the core information that will help you understand why and how content delivery works today, and apply that knowledge in the future.

• Focuses on the principles that will give you a deep and timely understanding of content networking.
• Offers dozens of protocol-specific examples showing how real-life Content Networks are currently designed and implemented.
• Provides extensive consideration of Content Services, including both the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) and Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES).
• Examines methods for supporting time-constrained media such as streaming audio and video and real-time media such as instant messages.
• Combines the vision and rigor of a prominent researcher with the practical experience of a seasoned development engineer to provide a unique combination of theoretical depth and practical application.

Practitioners and researchers at: network service providers (e.g., AT&T, Akamai, Qwest); software/hardware vendors (e.g., Lucent, Cisco, Nortel); and content providers (e.g. Yahoo; Disney; Google; Amazon)