MediaGuard: a Model-Based Framework for Building QoS-aware Streaming Media Services
Ludmila A. Cherkasova, Wenting Tang, Amin M. Vahdat · 2004
benchmarking, enterprise media servers, workload analysis, performance modeling, synthetic workload generator, admission control A number of technology and workload trends motivate us to consider the appropriate resource allocation mechanisms and policies for streaming media services in shared cluster environments. First, workload measurements of existing media services indicate a "peak-to-mean " workload variance of more than one order of magnitude. It is difficult to overprovision service resources for such a highly variable workload, making the adaptive resource allocation and economies of scale of a shared hosting environment attractive for streaming media services. Second, in emerqing