YouTube all around: Characterizing YouTube from mobile and fixed-line network vantage points

Author

Casas, Pedro ; Fiadino, Pierdomenico ; Bar, Arian ; D´Alconzo, Alessandro ; Finamore, Alessandro ; Mellia, Marco

Author_Institution

FTW - Telecommun. Res. Center, Vienna, Austria

fYear

2014

fDate

23-26 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

YouTube is the most popular service in today´s Internet. Its own success forces Google to constantly evolve its functioning to cope with the ever growing number of users watching YouTube. Understanding the characteristics of YouTube´s traffic as well as the way YouTube flows are served from the massive Google CDN is paramount for ISPs, specially for mobile operators, who must handle the huge surge of traffic with the capacity constraints of mobile networks. This papers presents a characterization of the YouTube traffic accessed through mobile and fixed-line networks. The analysis specially considers the YouTube content provisioning, studying the characteristics of the hosting servers as seen from both types of networks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper presenting such a simultaneous characterization from mobile and fixed-line vantage points.

Keywords

mobile radio; social networking (online); telecommunication traffic; Google CDN; YouTube traffic; capacity constraints; fixed-line network vantage points; mobile networks; network vantage points; Decision support systems; Content Delivery Networks; EU project mPlane; Google; Mobile Networks; Traffic Measurements; YouTube;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2014 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Bologna

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882697

Filename

6882697