Greening Mobile Networks via Optimizing the Efficiency of Content Delivery

This chapter presents a comprehensive tutorial of mobile network optimization in terms of accelerating content delivery. It first investigates live network measurements and identifies the network obstacles that dominate content delivery delays. Then, the chapter explains the classification of existing content delivery acceleration solutions in mobile networks: mobile system evolution, content and network optimization, and mobile data offloading. It provides content delivery acceleration solutions tailored for web content delivery and multimedia delivery. For web content delivery acceleration, the chapter overviews existing web content delivery systems and summarize their features. For multimedia delivery acceleration, it focuses on accelerating HTTP‐based adaptive streaming while briefly reviewing other multimedia delivery acceleration solutions. The chapter presents a timely survey on content delivery acceleration in mobile networks, and provides a comprehensive reference for further research in this field.