Quality-assured cloud bandwidth auto-scaling for video-on-demand applications

• Published in: 2012 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM pp. 460 - 468
• Main Authors: Di Niu, Hong Xu, Baochun Li, Shuqiao Zhao
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2012
• Subjects: Aggregates; Bandwidth; Channel estimation; Correlation; Load modeling; Monitoring; Streaming media

There has been a recent trend that video-on-demand (VoD) providers such as Netflix are leveraging resources from cloud services for multimedia streaming. In this paper, we consider the scenario that a VoD provider can make reservations for bandwidth guarantees from cloud service providers to guarant...