On the cost-qoe tradeoff for cloud-based video streaming under amazon EC2's pricing models

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 669-680

  He, Jian ^a   Wen, Yonggang ^b   Huang, Jianwei ^c   Wu, Di ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Pricing model; Video streaming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUD COMPUTING; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VIDEO STREAMING;

CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; PRICING MODELS; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION; VIDEO SERVICE PROVIDERS; VIDEO STREAMING SERVICES;

COSTS;

EID: 84897994543     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2013.2283430     Document Type: Article

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