Multivariate distributions for workload generation in video on demand systems

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 348-350

  Melendi, David ^a   Garcia, Roberto ^a   Pañeda, Xabiel G ^a   Garcia, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Interactive TV; Multimedia systems; Stochastic approximation; User modeling

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMPIRICAL DATA; INPUT DATA; INTERACTIVE TV; MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS; SIMULATION MODEL; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCIES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATION; USER MODELING; VIDEO ON DEMAND SERVICES; VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SYSTEM; WORKLOAD GENERATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIGITAL TELEVISION; INTERNET; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 67649183860     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2009.090138     Document Type: Article

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