Understanding demand volatility in large VoD systems

Authors:
Di Niu;Baochun Li;Shuqiao Zhao
Affiliations:
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;UUSee, Inc., Beijing, China
Venue:
Proceedings of the 21st international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Bandwidth usage in large-scale Video on Demand (VoD) systems varies rapidly over time, due to unpredictable dynamics in user demand and network conditions. Such bandwidth volatility makes it hard to provision the exact amount of server resources that matches the demand in each video channel, posing significant challenges to achieving quality assurance and efficient resource allocation at the same time. In this paper, we seek to statistically model time-varying traffic volatility in VoD servers, leveraging heteroscedastic models first used to interpret economic time series, with the goal of forecasting not only traffic patterns but also traffic volatility. We present the application of volatility forecast to efficient resource allocation that provides probabilistic service level guarantees to user groups. We also discuss volatility reduction from diversification, and its implications to new strategies for cost-effective server management. Our study is based on monitoring the workload of a large-scale commercial VoD system widely deployed on the Internet.