Innovations in network-based services continue to have strong impact on our world, resulting in a huge research interest in infrastructures that supports traditional and novel applications based on Internet. Accesses to interactive and multimedia services through a large variety of Internet devices require guaranteed performance, resource availability and proximity of content to the network access points. Scalability issues pose a number of design and performance problems at any level: systems, protocols, software. There is a number of open research challenges in improving content generation, personalization and delivery. The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, web service providers, application and network designers from academia and industry to exchange ideas about the problems they are facing and to discuss recent and innovative solutions.Topics of interest to this workshop include (but are not limited to) performance studies and solutions (algorithms, protocols, architectures) that tend to improve user experience in accessing interactive applications based on Internet.
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Versatile anycasting with mobile IPv6
Anycasting was introduced to facilitate efficient communication between distributed Internet services and their clients, as it allows client requests to be automatically routed to nearby service instances. However, even though several any-cast ...
IPv6 QoS testing on dual stack network
This paper presents our work regarding the testing and evaluation of DiffServ QoS mechanisms over IPv6 and IPv4 in dual stack software based platforms. IPv6 introduces some additional features (like flow label) and the current support for QoS mechanisms ...
High-bandwidth mesh-based overlay multicast in heterogeneous environments
In this paper we present MeshCast, a peer-to-peer (p2p) multicast protocol for applications requiring high bandwidth (such as live video streaming) from a server to a large number of receivers. Traditional tree-based approaches to overlay multicast ...
A distributed architecture to support infomobility services
The growing popularity of mobile and location aware devices allows the deployment of infomobility systems that provide access to information and services for the support of user mobility. Current systems for infomobility services assume that most ...
Towards user-friendly mobile browsing
- Timo Lehtonen,
- Said Benamar,
- Vesa Laamanen,
- Ilkka Luoma,
- Olli Ruotsalainen,
- Jaakko Salonen,
- Tommi MikkonenP
User experience of Web browsing on a mobile device is affected by low bandwidth, low CPU performance and small screen. This is not an essential technical restriction, as some help can be provided by running the browser engine on the server side instead ...
An overlay network providing application-aware multimedia services
Real-time streaming of multimedia content is increasingly becoming a crucial part of networked applications. A logical consequence of this evolution is a growing demand for services that can be applied on these multimedia streams. In this paper, we ...
BlogRank: ranking weblogs based on connectivity and similarity features
A large part of the hidden web resides in weblog servers; traditional search engines perform poorly on blogs. We present a method for ranking weblogs utilizing both link graph and similarity, and based on an enhanced and weighted graph of weblogs ...
Efficient caching of video content to an architecture of proxies according to a frequency-based cache management policy
This paper focuses on an environment of more than one proxy server that serve homogeneous or even heterogeneous client preferences for streaming of video files. Under a hierarchical tree topology system of proxies, the prefixes of the videos are stored ...