Understanding user behavior in large-scale video-on-demand systems

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 333-344

  Yu, Hongliang ^a   Zheng, Dongdong ^a   Zhao, Ben Y ^b   Zheng, Weimin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

modeling; Poisson distribution; user behavior; video on demand

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DIGITAL STORAGE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS; INTERNET APPLICATION; INVERSE CORRELATION; MEASUREMENT STUDY; MULTIMEDIA STREAMING SYSTEMS; SIMULATED MODEL; USER ARRIVAL RATE; VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SYSTEM;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 85059749796     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1218063.1217968     Document Type: Article

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