MediSyn: A synthetic streaming media service workload generator

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 12-21

  Tang, Wenting ^a   Fu, Yun ^b   Cherkasova, Ludmila ^a   Vahdat, Amin ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Streaming media; Workload analysis; Workload generator

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; MULTIPLEXING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CLIENT ACCESS PATTERNS;

INTERNET;

EID: 0038379468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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