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Volume/Edited Book or
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Technology and Computer Engineering
(ICACTCE’24)

Celestine Iwendi, Zakaria Boulouard, Natalia

Volume Editor(s) Name(s):
Kryvinska
Proposed Title of the Software-Defined Named Data Networking (the ‘Contribution’)
Contribution:
for Efficient Healthcare Content Distribution
Series: The Contribution A Springer book series
may be published in the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
following series

Author(s) Full Name(s): Yassine SEMBATI, Najib NAJA , Abdellah (the ‘Author’)

JAMALI
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1 Grant of Rights

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Signed for and on behalf of the Author Print Name: Date:

Yassine SEMBATI 06 /10/2024

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