Statistical admission control for soft real-time VOD servers
Sooyong Kang, Heon Young Yeom · 2000
To fully utilize the resources with soft real-time video-on-demand servers, statistical admission control is widely used. There have been several models to capture the nature of bit rate variability of the video data. However, when the video server employs caching, the resulting workload exhibits different characteristics. In this paper, we present a probabilistic model to analyze the video server workload. Our model enables the quantitative analysis of the disk load reduction induced by caching so that the caching effect can be reflected in the admission control. Using this model, it is possible to design a statistical admission control which provides a probabilistic guarantee for the jitter free playback.