A hierarchical characterization of a live streaming media workload

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 133-146

  Veloso, Eveline ^a   Almeida, Virgílio ^a   Meira Jr , Wagner ^a   Bestavros, Azer ^b   Jin, Shudong ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Live streaming; Measurement; Multimedia; Workload characterization

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

LIVE INTERNET STREAMING MEDIA; LIVE STREAMING MEDIA WORKLOAD; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 33144486556     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2005.863709     Document Type: Article

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