Web Content Caching and Distribution Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop

Web caching and content delivery technologies provide the infrastructure on which systems are built for the scalable distribution of information. This proceedings of the eighth annual workshop, captures a cross-section of the latest issues and techniques of interest to network architects and researchers in large-scale content delivery. Topics covered include the distribution of streaming multimedia, edge caching and computation, multicast, delivery of dynamic content, enterprise content delivery, streaming proxies and servers, content transcoding, replication and caching strategies, peer-to-peer content delivery, and Web prefetching.
Web Content Caching and Distribution encompasses all areas relating to the intersection of storage and networking for Internet content services. The book is divided into eight parts: mobility, applications, architectures, multimedia, customization, peer-to-peer, performance and measurement, and delta encoding.

Mobility.- Mobility Aware Server Selection for Mobile Streaming Multimedia Content Distribution Networks.- Performance of PEPs in Cellular Wireless Networks.- Applications.- Edge Caching for Directory Based Web Applications.- Computing on the Edge: A Platform for Replicating Internet Applications.- Scalable Consistency Maintenance for Edge Query Caches.- Architectures.- Proxy+: Simple Proxy Augmentation for Dynamic Content Processing.- Multicast Cloud with Integrated Multicast and Unicast Content Distribution Routing.- A Large Enterprise Content Distribution Network: Design, Implementation and Operation.- Architectural Choices for Video-On-Demand Systems.- Multimedia.- Dynamic Cache Reconfiguration Strategies for a Cluster-Based Streaming Proxy.- Stream Engine: A New Kernel Interface for High-Performance Internet Streaming Servers.- Streaming Flow Analyses for Prefetching in Segment-Based Proxy Caching to Improve Delivery Quality.- Customization.- Subscription-Enhanced Content Delivery.- Cooperative Architectures and Algorithms for Discovery and Transcoding of Multi-Version Content.- User Specific Request Redirection in a Content Delivery Network.- Peer-to-Peer.- Friendships that Last: Peer Lifespan and its Role in P2P Protocols.- A Fine-Grained Peer Sharing Technique for Delivering Large Media Files Over the Internet.- Performance and Measurement.- Proxy-Cache Aware Object Bundling for Web Access Acceleration.- A Case for Dynamic Selection of Replication and Caching Strategies.- Link Prefetching in Mozilla: A Server-Driven Approach.- A Generalized Model for Characterizing Content Modification Dynamics of Web Objects.- Delta Encoding.- Server-Friendly Delta Compression for Efficient Web Access.- Evaluation of ESI and Class-Based Delta Encoding.