"A lot of our clients prefer quantity over quality," said Bartolo.
In addition to the total simulation time, the parameters used for configuring the workload are as follows: the maximum number of requests (client arrivals), the quantity, the size and the bit rate of the videos available for access, and the distribution model for the dispersing of requests over the collection.
Quality Over Quantity: Client service is about providing the best experience possible.
In this context, since the clients stay separated by a larger number of blocks, the size of the time window needs to be expanded to accommodate a greater quantity of clients per window, which causes an imbalance on the number of clients present in each window.
However, since the sequences move jointly with the movement of the clients, even the sequences that have a greater quantity of previous clients in the short-term tend to be disposed when they begin to get close to the end of the video.
This occurs because when clients are more concentrated, the use of a large time window tends to encompass not only a great number of clients but also a high quantity of sequences within each window, making the same clients account for different sequences simultaneously.
Custom orders are approved only if the client agrees to a minimum quantity, which can often be in the hundreds.
Other approximations of client use are based on quantities of commodities issued by facility storerooms to dispensaries, quantities of commodities issued by warehouses and stores to service delivery points, and forecasted dispensed-to-user data.
The client applications process the received quantities, according to pre-defined analyses, making the results immediately available, and store the results in a database, and in the form of static web pages, for subsequent studies.
"The Soviet Union provided huge quantities of arms to client states such as Ethiopia and Angola during the Cold War.
