AdpGen Synthetic Workload Generator (2018 version)

AdpGen, a workload generator for live events broadcasted through HTTP Adaptive Streaming. It can be used, for instance, to generate a synthetic workload in order to evaluate server resource consumption.

• Based on 2018 FIFA World Cup event: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00530-021-00788-4
• Generates the client on-time, inter-session time, number of sessions and fraction of requested segments

Instructions

To call the generator from the command line use:
python3 generator_cluster_markov_thesis_LITE.py [execution round number] [random seed];

Example: python3 generator_cluster_markov_thesis_LITE.py 1 1276;

The output is stored in the synthetic folder:

• cluster_ontime_x.csv: session duration in seconds
• cluster_offtime_x.csv: client inter-session duration
• cluster_qtd_x.csv: client number of sessions
• cluster_other_x.csv: performance metrics (average bitrate, number of bytes, number of segments of each bitrate)

Number of clients and arrival regime

Number of clients
To change the number of clients, change the value of variable TOTAL_CLIENTS in line 150