Modeling and generating realistic streaming media server workloads

Computer Networks

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 336-356

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

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

File life span; Media access patterns; Modeling; Non stationary popularity; Streaming media server workload; Synthetic workload generator; Temporal and static properties; Zipf Mandelbrot law

Indexed keywords

FILE LIFE SPAN; MEDIA ACCESS PATTERNS; NON-STATIONARY POPULARITY; STREAMING MEDIA SERVER WORKLOAD; SYNTHETIC WORKLOAD GENERATORS; TEMPORAL AND STATIC PROPERTIES; ZIPF-MANDELBROT LAW;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MULTIPLEXING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33749614306     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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