Performance analysis of video streaming (YouTube) by Riverbed Modeler

ENSC833 Spring 2022 Team 07

Licheng Bao 301296884 lichengb@sfu.ca
Linqi Cheng 301271424 linqic@sfu.ca
Yiran Wang 301473391 ywa391@sfu.ca

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This project tries to use the Riverbed Modeler 17.5 to simulate and analyze YouTube video streaming performance. Implementing the project will use the data from YouTube and design a series of scenarios, including a relatively ideal scenario, a scenario of video browsing with other users, a scenario with the effect of different data rates, and a scenario with the movement. These scenarios will consider the evaluation criteria such as latency, throughput, etc.

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