Characterizing SopCast client behavior

Computer Communications

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1004-1016

  Borges, Alex ^a,b   Gomes, Pedro ^a   Nacif, José ^a,c   Mantini, Rodrigo ^a   Almeida, Jussara M ^a   Campos, Sérgio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Client behavior; Internet measurement; Live streaming; Peer to peer

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR MODEL; CLIENT BEHAVIOR; DETAILED MODELS; DETERMINATION OF PARAMETERS; DYNAMIC PATTERNS; INTERNET MEASUREMENT; LIVE STREAMING; LOW COSTS; MAJOR EVENTS; MODEL COMPONENTS; PEER-TO-PEER; PEER-TO-PEER APPLICATION; PLANETLAB; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; SYNTHETIC WORKLOADS; TV CHANNELS;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS;

VIDEO STREAMING;

EID: 84859540957     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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