Research Article

Adjustable Two-Tier Cache for IPTV Based on Segmented Streaming

Table 3

Simulation parameters and default values.

Number of videos2000
Video length10–110 minutes
Request arrival rate6 requests per minute
Simulation duration43200 minutes
Cache size0.2 (in the percentage of the entire video size)
Video popularityZipf-like distribution for video titles, Zipf( )
Probability of forward/stop playback0.2
Popularity shift distance10 videos every 21600 minutes