Characterization of a Real Internet Radio Service

The increase in the number of Web-pages where links to Internet-radios are offered has made these services one of the most popular in nowadays Internet. This popularity has motivated the interest of the scientific community and a lot of research has been carried out in order to improve and study these services. This paper presents the analysis of the Internet-radio hosted by the www.asturies.com digital newspaper. The study has been performed thanks to a log database stored over a period of almost two years. The traffic between every service device has been studied and different elements about users´ behaviour have been analyzed. The conclusions are essential to improve the configuration of one of these services. Service models for Internet-radio services can be developed and help managers to test different configurations or predict future situations, avoiding problems in advance