Paper Info
Title
Understanding the Characteristics of Internet Short Video Sharing: YouTube as a Case Study
Abstract
Abstract, Established in 2005, YouTube has become the most successful Internet site providing a new generation of short video sharing service. Today, YouTube alone comprises approximately 20% of all HTTP traffic, or nearly 10% of all traffic on the Internet. Understanding the features of YouTube and similar video sharing sites is thus crucial to their sustainable development and to network traffic engineering. In this paper, using traces crawled in a 3-month period, we present an in-depth and systematic measurement study on the characteristics of YouTube videos. We find that YouTube videos have noticeably different statistics compared to traditional streaming videos, ranging from length and access pattern, to their active life span, ratings, and comments. The series of datasets also allows us to identify the growth trend of this fast evolving Internet site in various aspects, which has seldom been explored before. We also look closely at the social networking aspect of YouTube, as this is a key driving force toward its success. In particular, we find that the links to related videos generate d by uploaders'choices form a small-world network. This suggests that the videos have strong correlations with each other, and creates opportunities for developing novel caching or peer-to-peer distribution schemes to efficiently deliver videos to end us ers.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
sustainable development,small world network,social network,life span
Field
DocType
Volume
World Wide Web,Social network,End user,Computer science,Computer network,Life span,Video sharing,Multimedia,Traffic engineering,Internet traffic,The Internet
Journal
abs/0707.3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
88
8.14
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xu Cheng133021.21
Cameron Dale216710.73
Jiangchuan Liu34340310.86