• Article  

      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 ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Conference Object  

      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 ...