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Quid pro Quo in Streaming Services: Algorithms for Cooperative Recommendations
Dimitra Tsigkari, George Iosifidis, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
Recommendations are employed by Content Providers (CPs) of streaming services in order to boost user engagement and their revenues. Recent works suggest that nudging recommendation…
Network Friendly Recommendations: Optimizing for Long Viewing Sessions
Theodoros Giannakas, Pavlos Sermpezis, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
Caching algorithms try to predict content popularity, and place the content closer to the users. Additionally, nowadays requests are increasingly driven by recommendation systems (…
Fairness in Network-Friendly Recommendations
Theodoros Giannakas, Pavlos Sermpezis, Anastasios Giovanidis +2
As mobile traffic is dominated by content services (e.g., video), which typically use recommendation systems, the paradigm of network-friendly recommendations (NFR) has been propos…
SOBA: Session optimal MDP-based network friendly recommendations
Theodoros Giannakas, Anastasios Giovanidis, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
Caching content over CDNs or at the network edge has been solidified as a means to improve network cost and offer better streaming experience to users. Furthermore, nudging the use…
Network-aware Recommendations in the Wild: Methodology, Realistic Evaluations, Experiments
Savvas Kastanakis, Pavlos Sermpezis, Vasileios Kotronis +2
Joint caching and recommendation has been recently proposed as a new paradigm for increasing the efficiency of mobile edge caching. Early findings demonstrate significant gains for…
An approximation algorithm for joint caching and recommendations in cache networks
Dimitra Tsigkari, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
Streaming platforms, like Netflix and YouTube, strive to offer high streaming quality (SQ), in terms of bitrate, delays, etc., to their users. Meanwhile, a significant share of con…