The primary use of the Internet is content distribution--the delivery of web pages, audio, and
video to client applications--yet the Internet was never architected for scalable content …

As the Internet has grown, so have the challenges associated with delivering static,
streaming, and dynamic content to end-users. This book is unique in that it addresses the …

As multimedia contents become increasingly dominant and voluminous, the current Internet
architecture will reveal its inefficiency in delivering time-sensitive multimedia traffic. To …

We argue that the needs of many classes of modern applications, especially those targeted
at mobile or wireless computing, demand the services of content-based publish/subscribe …

Since Internet routers are not aware of the contents being forwarded, the same content file is
often delivered multiple times inefficiently. Similarly, users cannot exploit a nearby copy of …

This paper presents an algorithm for content-based forwarding, an essential function in
content-based networking. Unlike in traditional address-based unicast or multicast networks …

Network use has evolved to be dominated by content distribution and retrieval, while
networking technology still speaks only of connections between hosts. Accessing content …

The designers of communication networks are being challenged by the emergence of a new
class of addressing and routing scheme referred to as content-based addressing and …

Building on experience with a general-purpose notification service, we describe the design
and implementation of a second-generation content-based messaging system. Elvin4 …

This work proposes a routing scheme for content-based networking. A content-based
network is a communication network that features a new advanced communication model …