Delving into internet streaming media delivery: a quality and resource utilization perspective

Modern Internet streaming services have utilized various techniques to improve the quality of streaming media delivery. Despite the characterization of media access patterns and user behaviors in many measurement studies, few studies have focused on the streaming techniques themselves, particularly on the quality of streaming experiences they offer end users and on the resources of the media systems that they consume. In order to gain insights into current streaming services and thus provide guidance on designing resource-efficient and high quality streaming media systems, we have collected a large streaming media workload from thousands of broadband home users and business users hosted by a major ISP, and analyzed the most commonly used streaming techniques such as automatic protocol switch, Fast Streaming, MBR encoding and rate adaptation. Our measurement and analysis results show that with these techniques, current streaming systems tend to over-utilize CPU and bandwidth resources ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: IMC
• Authors: Lei Guo, Enhua Tan, Songqing Chen, Zhen Xiao, Oliver Spatscheck, Xiaodong Zhang
• Keywords: Fast Streaming, IMC 2006, Quality Streaming Media, Streaming Media