In this work we present the characterization of the mobile network traffic generated by one of
the most relevant social networking applications: YouTube. Understanding its characteristics …

In this paper we present a complete measurement study that compares YouTube traffic
generated by mobile devices (smart-phones, tablets) with traffic generated by common PCs …

Video streaming applications constitute a significant portion of the Internet traffic today, with
mobile accounting for more than half of the online video views. The high share of video in …

Android and iOS devices are leading the mobile device market. While various user
experiences have been reported from the general user community about their differences …

YouTube currently accounts for a significant percentage of the Internet's global traffic.
Hence, understanding the characteristics of the YouTube traffic generation pattern can …

The performance of YouTube in cellular networks is crucial to network operators, who try to
find a trade-off between cost-efficient handling of the huge traffic amounts and high …

HTTP Adaptive Streaming dominates most of the traffic on the Internet today and a large
fraction is driven by video consumption on mobile phones and tablet devices. The client …

Secondly, we focus on YouTube users' behaviors. We have discovered that about 40% of
the video transfers were aborted by the client while in 19% of the cases, the client was …

YouTube is one of the most popular and volume-dominant services in today's Internet, and
has changed the web for ever. Consequently, network operators are forced to consider it in …

The performance of YouTube in mobile networks is crucial to network operators, who try to
find a trade-off between cost-efficient handling of the huge traffic amounts and high …