System and method for measuring the capacity of a streaming media server
US7424528B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 27, 2002 |
| Grant date | Sep 9, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 26, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/8456
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for measuring the capacity of a media server for supporting concurrent media streams to a population of clients is provided. The method comprises identifying a mixed workload, wherein the mixed workload corresponds to a number of media streams served concurrently by the media server to a population of clients wherein all of said number of media streams do not comprise common content encoded at a common bit rate. The method further comprises using a cost function to compute a load for the media server under the mixed workload.
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