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Machine Learning Technique Predicting Video Streaming Views to Reduce Cost of Cloud Services

Machine Learning 2022-10-18 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Video streams tremendously occupied the highest portion of online traffic. Multiple versions of a video are created to fit the user's device specifications. In cloud storage, Keeping all versions of frequently accessed video streams in the repository for the long term imposes a significant cost paid by video streaming providers. Generally, the popularity of a video changes each period of time, which means the number of views received by a video could be dropped, thus, the video must be deleted from the repository. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a method that predicts the popularity of each video stream in the repository in the next period. On the other hand, we propose an algorithm that utilizes the predicted popularity of a video to compute the storage cost, and then it decides whether the video will be kept or deleted from the cloud repository. The experiment results show a cost reduction of the cloud services by 15% compared to keeping all video streams.

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@article{arxiv.2210.09078,
  title  = {Machine Learning Technique Predicting Video Streaming Views to Reduce Cost of Cloud Services},
  author = {Mahmoud Darwich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.09078},
  year   = {2022}
}
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