Analyzing the video popularity characteristics of large-scale user generated content systems

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1357-1370

  Cha, Meeyoung ^a   Kwak, Haewoon ^b   Rodriguez, Pablo ^c   Ahn, Yong Yeol ^d   Moon, Sue ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copyright protection; Exponential distributions; Human factors; Interactive TV; Log normal distributions; Pareto distributions; Probability

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHT PROTECTION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HUMAN FACTORS; INTERACTIVE TV; LOG NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COPYRIGHTS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 70350561808     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2008.2011358     Document Type: Article

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