Analysis and characterization of a Video-on-Demand service workload

• Video-on-Demand (VoD) and video sharing services accountfor a large percentage of the total downstream Internet traf-fic. In order to provide a better understanding of the loadon these services, we analyze and model a workload tracefrom a VoD service provided by a major Swedish TV broad-caster. The trace contains over half a million requests gener-ated by more than 20000 unique users. Among other things,we study the request arrival rate, the inter-arrival time, thespikes in the workload, the video popularity distribution, thestreaming bit-rate distribution and the video duration distri-bution. Our results show that the user and the session ar-rival rates for the TV4 workload does not follow a Poissonprocess. The arrival rate distribution is modeled using a log-normal distribution while the inter-arrival time distributionis modeled using a stretched exponential distribution. Weobserve the “impatient user” behavior where users abandonstreaming sessions after minutes or even seconds of startingthem. Both very popular videos and non-popular videos areparticularly affected by impatient users. We investigate ifthis behavior is an invariant for VoD workloads.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Datorsystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Computer Systems (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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business data processing

administrativ databehandling

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