GENIUS: a generator of interactive user media sessions
C. Costa, C. Ramos, Ítalo F. S. Cunha, J.M. Alincida · 2005
The generation of realistic interactive synthetic streaming media workloads is of great importance for the effective evaluation of alternative media distribution techniques. This paper fills a gap left by previous studies and proposes a hierarchical model that captures key aspects of media user behavior and workloads, in particular, interactivity and heterogeneity. It also introduces GENIUS, a highly flexible and realistic streaming media workload generator that implements the proposed model and is parameterized with results from an extensive characterization of a rich set of real media workloads. Preliminary experiments show that our generator accurately captures workload aspects of key impact to system performance.