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      CDNs content outsourcing via generalized communities 

      Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Pallis, George C.; Stamos, Kostas; Vakali, Athena I.; Sidiropoulos, Antonis; Manolopoulos, Yannis (2009)
      Content distribution networks (CDNs) balance costs and quality in services related to content delivery. Devising an efficient content outsourcing policy is crucial since, based on such policies, CDN providers can provide ...
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      CDNsim: A simulation tool for content distribution networks 

      Stamos, Kostas; Pallis, George C.; Vakali, Athena I.; Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Sidiropoulos, Antonis; Manolopoulos, Yannis (2010)
      Content distribution networks (CDNs) have gained considerable attention in the past few years. Hence there is need for developing frameworks for carrying out CDN simulations. In this article we present a modeling and ...
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      Cloud computing [Guest Editorial] 

      Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Pallis, George C.; Sivasubramanian, S.; Vakali, Athena I. (2011)
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      Cloud computing: Distributed internet computing for IT and scientific research 

      Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Mehra, P.; Pallis, George C.; Vakali, Athena I. (2009)
      Cloud computing is location agnostic and provides dynamically scalable and virtualized resources as services over the Internet. Here, the authors provide broad introductory definitions to cloud computing concepts. Articles ...
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      A latency-based object placement approach in content distribution networks 

      Pallis, George C.; Vakali, Athena I.; Stamos, Kostas; Sidiropoulos, Antonis; Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Manolopoulos, Yannis (2005)
      Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) are increasingly being used to disseminate data in today's Internet. The growing interest in CDNs is motivated by a common problem across disciplines: how does one reduce the load on ...
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      On the structure and evolution of vehicular networks 

      Pallis, George C.; Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Loulloudes, Nicholas; Tassiulas, L. (2009)
      Vehicular ad hoc networks have emerged recently as a platform to support intelligent inter-vehicle communication and improve traffic safety and performance. The road-constrained and high mobility of the vehicles, their ...
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      Prefetching in content distribution networks via Web communities identification and outsourcing 

      Sidiropoulos, Antonis; Pallis, George C.; Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Stamos, Kostas; Vakali, Athena I.; Manolopoulos, Yannis (2008)
      Content distribution networks (CDNs) improve scalability and reliability, by replicating content to the "edge" of the Internet. Apart from the pure networking issues of the CDNs relevant to the establishment of the ...
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      Replication based on Objects Load under a Content Distribution Network 

      Pallis, George C.; Stamos, Kostas; Vakali, Athena I.; Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Sidiropoulos, Antonis; Manolopoulos, Yannis (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2006)
      Users tend to use the Internet for "resource-hungry" applications (which involve content such as video, audio on-demand and distributed data) and at the same time, more and more applications (such as e-commerce, elearning ...