Title :
Modeling of multimedia files on the Web 2.0
Author :
Soraya, Mojgan ; Zamani, Masood ; Abhari, Abdolreza
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ryerson Univ., Toronto, ON
Abstract :
In this paper we introduced a workload characterization study of the most popular video sharing service, YouTube, on the Web 2.0. For approximately a two-month period we collected the information of more than 17,000 video files and investigated the file attributes and popularity characteristics of YouTube. Since YouTube is considered as a huge video library, its access pattern has an important impact on the Internet traffic distribution. Comprehension of YouTube features and similar video sharing sites is critical to analyze network traffic and to develop novel user generated contents (UGC) services. This distribution models especially Zipf-like behavior of popular video files suggests caching may reduce network traffic and increase scalability of YouTube Web site.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; video streaming; Internet traffic distribution; Web 2.0; YouTube Web site; Zipf-like behavior; multimedia files modeling; network traffic; user generated contents; video library; video sharing service; Computer science; Internet; Scalability; Statistics; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; User-generated content; Video sharing; XML; YouTube; Caching; Characterization; Distribution; Multimedia; Web 2.0; YouTube;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008. CCECE 2008. Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Niagara Falls, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1642-4
Electronic_ISBN :
0840-7789
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564769
