Using Libception to Understand and Improve HTTP Streaming Video Server Throughput
Tyler Szepesi, Benjamin Cassell, Tim B. Brecht, Derek L. Eager, Jim Summers, Bernard Wong · 2017
Video streaming applications generate a large fraction of Internet traffic. Much of this content is delivered over HTTP using standard web servers. Unlike other types of web workloads, HTTP video streaming workloads are typically disk bound, and therefore an important problem is that of optimizing disk access.