Netflix is the leading provider of on-demand Internet video streaming in the US and Canada,
accounting for 29.7% of the peak downstream traffic in US. Understanding the Netflix …

Netflix and Hulu are leading Over-the-Top (OTT) content service providers in the US and
Canada. Netflix alone accounts for 29.7% of the peak downstream traffic in the US in 2011 …

Video streaming represents a large fraction of Internet traffic. Surprisingly, little is known
about the network characteristics of this traffic. In this paper, we study the network …

Video viewership over the Internet is rising rapidly, and market predictions suggest that
video will comprise over 90\% of Internet traffic in the next few years. At the same time, there …

In this paper, we conduct a detailed study of the YouTube CDN with a view to understanding
the mechanisms and policies used to determine which data centers users download video …

Content delivery networks (CDNs) have become a crucial part of the modern Web
infrastructure. This paper studies the performance of the leading content delivery provider …

The popularity of online services has grown exponentially, spurring great interest in
improving server hardware and software. However, conducting research on servers has …

We deduce key design features behind the YouTube video delivery system by building a
distributed active measurement infrastructure, and collecting and analyzing a large volume …

There has been a recent trend that video-on-demand (VoD) providers such as Netflix are
leveraging resources from cloud services for multimedia streaming. In this paper, we …

Modern Internet streaming services have utilized various techniques to improve the quality
of streaming media delivery. Despite the characterization of media access patterns and user …