User Generated Content (UGC) has boosted a high popularity since the birth of a wide range of web services allowing the distribution of such user-produced media content, whose patterns vary from textual information, photo galleries to videos on site. The boom of Internet of Things and the newly released HTML5 accelerate the development of multimedia patterns as well as the technology of distributing it. YouTube, as one of the most popular video sharing site, enjoys the top most numbers of video views and video uploads per day in the world. With the rapid growing of multimedia patterns as well as huge bandwidth demand from subscribers, the sheer volume of the traffic is going to severely strain the network resources.</p><p>Therefore, analyzing media streaming traffic patterns and cacheability in live IP-access networks today leads a hot issue among network operators and content providers. One possible solution could be caching popular contents with a high replay rate in a proxy server on LAN border or in users' terminals.</p><p>Based on the solution, this thesis project focuses on developing a measurement framework to associate network cacheability with video category and video duration under a typical Swedish municipal network. Experiments of focused parameters are performed to investigate potential user behavior rules. From the analysis of the results, Music traffic gets a rather ideal network gain as well as a remarkable terminal gain, indicating that it is more efficient to be stored close to end user. Film&Animation traffic, however, is preferable to be cached in the network due to its high net gain. Besides, it is optimal to cache the video clips with a length between 3 and 5 minutes, especially the Music and Film&Animation traffic. In addition, more than half of the replays occur during 16.00-24.00 and peak hours appear on average from 18.00 to 22.00. Lastly, only around 16% of the videos are global popular and very few heavy users tend to be local popular video viewers, depicting local limits and independent user interests

In the era of data-driven decision-making and innovation, synthetic data serves as a promising tool that bridges the need for vast datasets in machine learning (ML) and the imperative necessity of data privacy. By simulating real-world data while preserving privacy, synthetic data generators have become more prevalent instruments in AI and ML development. A key challenge with synthetic data lies in accurately estimating its utility. For such purpose, Population Fidelity (PF) measures have shown to be good candidates, a category of metrics that evaluates how well the synthetic data mimics the general distribution of the original data. With this setting, we aim to answer: "How well are different population fidelity measures able to indicate the utility of synthetic data for machine learning based classification models?" We designed a reusable six-step experiment framework to examine the correlation between nine PF measures and the performance of four ML for training classification models over five datasets. The six-step approach includes data preparation, training, testing on original and synthetic datasets, and PF measures computation. The study reveals non-linear relationships between the PF measures and synthetic data utility. The general analysis, meaning the monotonic relationship between the PF measure and performance over all models, yielded at most moderate correlations, where the Cluster measure showed the strongest correlation. In the more granular model-specific analysis, Random Forest showed strong correlations with three PF measures. The findings show that no PF measure shows a consistently high correlation over all models to be considered a universal estimator for model performance.This highlights the importance of context-aware application of PF measures and sets the stage for future research to expand the scope, including support for a wider range of types of data and integrating privacy evaluations in synthetic data assessment. Ultimately, this study contributes to the effective and reliable use of synthetic data, particularly in sensitive fields where data quality is vital. / I eran av datadriven beslutsfattning och innovation, fungerar syntetiska data som ett lovande verktyg som bryggar behovet av omfattande dataset inom maskininlärning (ML) och nödvändigheten för dataintegritet. Genom att simulera verklig data samtidigt som man bevarar integriteten, har generatorer av syntetiska data blivit allt vanligare verktyg inom AI och ML-utveckling. En viktig utmaning med syntetiska data är att noggrant uppskatta dess användbarhet. För detta ändamål har mått under kategorin Populations Fidelity (PF) visat sig vara goda kandidater, det är mätvärden som utvärderar hur väl syntetiska datan efterliknar den generella distributionen av den ursprungliga datan. Med detta i åtanke strävar vi att svara på följande: Hur väl kan olika population fidelity mätvärden indikera användbarheten av syntetisk data för maskininlärnings baserade klassifikationsmodeller? För att besvara frågan har vi designat ett återanvändbart sex-stegs experiment ramverk, för att undersöka korrelationen mellan nio PF-mått och prestandan hos fyra ML klassificeringsmodeller, på fem dataset. Sex-stegs strategin inkluderar datatillredning, träning, testning på både ursprungliga och syntetiska dataset samt beräkning av PF-mått. Studien avslöjar förekommandet av icke-linjära relationer mellan PF-måtten och användbarheten av syntetiska data. Den generella analysen, det vill säga den monotona relationen mellan PF-måttet och prestanda över alla modeller, visade som mest medelmåttiga korrelationer, där Cluster-måttet visade den starkaste korrelationen. I den mer detaljerade, modell-specifika analysen visade Random Forest starka korrelationer med tre PF-mått. Resultaten visar att inget PF-mått visar konsekvent hög korrelation över alla modeller för att betraktas som en universell indikator för modellprestanda. Detta understryker vikten av kontextmedveten tillämpning av PF-mått och banar väg för framtida forskning för att utöka omfånget, inklusive stöd för ett bredare utbud för data av olika typer och integrering av integritetsutvärderingar i bedömningen av syntetiska data. Därav, så bidrar denna studie till effektiv och tillförlitlig användning av syntetiska data, särskilt inom känsliga områden där datakvalitet är avgörande.