Paper Info
Title
Understanding the Characteristics of Internet Short Video Sharing: A YouTube-Based Measurement Study
Abstract
Established in 2005, YouTube has become the most successful Internet website providing a new generation of short video sharing service. Today, YouTube alone consumes as much bandwidth as did the entire Internet in year 2000 . 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 1.5-year span (from February 2007 to September 2008), 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, access pattern, to their active life span. The series of datasets also allow us to identify the growth trend of this fast evolving Internet site, 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 generated 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 and peer-to-peer distribution schemes to efficiently deliver videos to end users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TMM.2013.2265531
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
statistical analysis
World Wide Web,Social network,End user,Computer science,Internet Website,Peer to peer computing,Life span,Video sharing,Multimedia,Traffic engineering,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
5
1520-9210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
79
2.59
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xu Cheng133021.21
Jiangchuan Liu24340310.86
Cameron Dale316710.73