Understanding the Characteristics of Internet Short Video Sharing: A YouTube-Based Measurement Study

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...