Client-side energy costs of video streaming
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 257497306
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1109/DSDIS.2015.49
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems : 11–13 December 2015 Sydney, Australia
- First page
- 252
- Volume
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- Issue
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- ISSN
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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B - Systems
- Citation count
- 0
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This was the first study to examine experimentally the overall, client-side energy costs of video streaming from a commercial service. Through empirical evaluation of streaming video from Netflix, using direct measurements of power consumption on a desktop computer, we showed that if users could exercise more choice in their video streaming habits, over 100 GWh of energy a year could be saved on a global scale, just from a single provider, Netflix. We also gave associated estimates of both monetary savings for users, and reductions in carbon emissions.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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