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

fYear

2008

fDate

4-7 May 2008

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008. CCECE 2008. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Niagara Falls, ON

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1642-4

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564769

Filename

4564769