Since the release of Netflix in 2007, there has been an ever increasing demand for video streaming. Since then, many other services such as Crackle, and Amazon Instant Video have popped up to supply content for the continuously growing demand for such services. On the user side of things, the overall popularity of wireless devices has created a rich topology that has enabled users to consume these services seamlessly in a mobile manner. All of this coupled together gave us the incentive to perform simulation and analysis of video streaming performance over mobile networks such as LTE. The simulation would then be performed using Riverbed Modeler due to its ability to create a variety of necessary scenarios and collect the data we need to perform a valid analysis.

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