@inproceedings {conf/hpdc/StamosPVD09,
	title = {Evaluating the utility of content delivery networks},
	booktitle = {UPGRADE-CN},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {11-20},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	abstract = {<p>Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) balance costs and qualityin services related to content delivery. This has urgedmany Web entrepreneurs to make contracts with CDNs. Inthe literature, a wide range of techniques has been developed,implemented and standardized for improving the performanceof CDNs. The ultimate goal of all the approachesis to improve the utility of CDN surrogate servers. In thispaper we define a metric which measures the utility of CDNsurrogate servers, called CDN utility. This metric capturesthe traffic activity in a CDN, expressing the usefulness ofsurrogate servers in terms of data circulation in the network.Through an extensive simulation testbed, we identifythe parameters that affect the CDN utility in such infrastructures.We evaluate the utility of surrogate servers undervarious parameters and provide insightful comments.</p>
},
	keywords = {CDN pricing, Content Delivery, network utility, networks},
	isbn = {978-1-60558-591-8},
	author = {Stamos, Konstantinos and Pallis, George and Athena Vakali and Dikaiakos, Marios D.},
	editor = {Fortino, Giancarlo and Mastroianni, Carlo and Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan and Athena Vakali}
}
@inproceedings {conf/hpdc/FortinoMPV09,
	title = {Next generation content networks: trends and challenges},
	booktitle = {UPGRADE-CN},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {49},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	isbn = {978-1-60558-591-8},
	author = {Fortino, Giancarlo and Mastroianni, Carlo and Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan and Athena Vakali},
	editor = {Fortino, Giancarlo and Mastroianni, Carlo and Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan and Athena Vakali}
}
@proceedings {conf/hpdc/2009upgrade,
	title = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Use of P2P, GRID and Agents for the Development of Content Networks, UPGRADE-CN{\^a}{\texteuro}{\texttrademark}09, jointly held with the 18th International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-18 2009), 10 June 2009, Ga},
	booktitle = {UPGRADE-CN},
	year = {2009},
	publisher = {ACM},
	isbn = {978-1-60558-591-8},
	editor = {Fortino, Giancarlo and Mastroianni, Carlo and Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan and Athena Vakali}
}
@book {Buyya2008,
	title = {Content Delivery Networks (Lecture Notes Electrical Engineering)},
	series = {Content Delivery Networks},
	year = {2008},
	publisher = {Springer-Verlag Gmbh},
	organization = {Springer-Verlag Gmbh},
	edition = {1},
	abstract = {**Content Delivery Networks** enables the readers to understand the basics, to identify the underlying technology, to summarize their knowledge on concepts, ideas, principles and various paradigms which span on broad CDNs areas. Therefore, aspects of CDNs in terms of basics, design process, practice, techniques, performances, platforms, applications, and experimental results have been presented in a proper order. Fundamental methods, initiatives, significant research results, as well as references for further study have also been provided. Comparison of different design and development approaches are described at the appropriate places so that new researchers as well as advanced practitioners can use the CDNs evaluation as a research roadmap. All the contributions have been reviewed, edited, processed, and placed in the appropriate order to maintain consistency so that any reader irrespective of their level of knowledge and technological skills in CDNs would get the most out of it. The book is organized into three parts, namely, Part I: CDN Fundamentals; Part II: CDN Modeling and Performance; and Part III: Advanced CDN Platforms and Applications. The organization ensures the smooth flow of material as successive chapters build on prior ones.},
	keywords = {cdn, content, lnee, networks, placement, qos, replacement, replica, search},
	isbn = {3540778861},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-77887-5},
	editor = {Buyya, Rajkumar and Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan and Athena Vakali}
}