Youtube traffic characterization
Phillipa Gill, Martin F. Arlitt, Zongpeng Li, Anirban Mahanti · 2007
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 users on an edge network and YouTube, including more than 600,000 video downloads. We also monitored the globally popular videos over this period of time.