Equipment allocation in video-on-demand network deployments

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Thouin, Frederic ^a   Coates, Mark ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equipment allocation; Optimization; Resource allocation; Video on demand

Indexed keywords

COST MODELS; EQUIPMENT ALLOCATION; EQUIPMENT ALLOCATIONS; HIT RATIOS; NETWORK DEPLOYMENTS; PARAMETRIC FUNCTIONS; STREAMING SERVERS; TRANSPORT COSTS; USAGE MODELS; VOD SERVERS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INTERNET; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SERVERS; VIDEO STREAMING;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 56349086025     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1404880.1404885     Document Type: Article

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