Abstract:INTRODUCTIONThe recent, and strong, orientation of the Internet towards services [1] has led to a closer coupling between the transport/network and service/application layers [2] aiming to increase the overall efficiency through cross layer optimization. This can be achieved by making networks more aware of the transported content [3] -content aware networks (CANs), or making applications more aware of network conditions -network aware applications (NAA).In parallel, recent developments of multimedia and conte… Show more
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