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…
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.