This chapter investigates HTTP video streaming over the Internet for the YouTube platform.
YouTube is used as concrete example and case study for video delivery over the Internet …

YouTube is the most popular service in today's Internet. Google relies on its massive content
delivery network (CDN) to push YouTube videos as close as possible to the end-users, both …

YouTube, the killer application of today's Internet, is changing the way ISPs and network
operators manage quality monitoring and provisioning on their IP networks. YouTube is …

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 …

Due to the widespread use of encryption in Over-The-Top video streaming traffic, network
operators generally lack insight into application-level quality indicators (eg, video quality …

YouTube is changing the way operators manage network performance monitoring. In this
paper we introduce YOUQMON, a novel on-line monitoring system for assessing the Quality …

Over the last decade, Quality of Experience (QoE) has become the guiding paradigm for
enabling a more user-centric understanding of quality of communication networks and …

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 …

This paper presents a traffic characterization study of the popular video sharing service,
YouTube. Over a three month period we observed almost 25 million transactions between …

Video streaming is a dominant contributor to the global Internet traffic. Consequently,
monitoring video streaming Quality of Experience (QoE) is of paramount importance to …