We present a streaming media test bed for IP networks. Besides a streaming server and a streaming media client, it consists of an IP network emulator, a high-performance packet ca...
The main problem we address in this paper is how to map the requirements of a known media service workload into the corresponding system resource requirements and to accurately siz...
Currently, Internet hosting centers and content distribution networks leverage statistical multiplexing to meet the performance requirements of a number of competing hosted networ...
This paper presents an extensive analysis of the client workloads for educational media servers at two major U.S. universities. The goals of the analysis include providing data fo...
Jussara M. Almeida, Jeffrey Krueger, Derek L. Eage...
This paper develops simple cost models for provisioning content distribution networks that use the simple and highly scalable bandwidth skimming protocol for streaming. New insight...
Jussara M. Almeida, Derek L. Eager, Michael C. Fer...