Title
Campus-Level Instagram Traffic: A Case Study
Abstract
Instagram is a popular network application for photo sharing, video streaming, and online social media interaction. In this paper, we present results from an initial characterization study of Instagram network traffic, as viewed from a large campus edge network. Despite the challenges of NAT, DHCP, end-to-end encryption, and high traffic volume, we are able to identify key characteristics of Instagram traffic, which exceeds 1 TB per day. The main highlights from our study include classic observations such as diurnal usage patterns, Zipf-like distributions for IP frequency-rank profile, and heavy-tailed transfer size distributions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MASCOTS.2019.00032
2019 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Network traffic measurement,Internet traffic characterization,Online social networks,Instagram,TCP/IP
Computer science,Multimedia,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2375-0227
978-1-7281-4950-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steffen Berg Klenow100.34
C. Williamson22998417.38
Martin F. Arlitt300.34
Sina Keshvadi401.35