Anatomy of a Mobile Live Streaming Service: the Case of Periscope.
Matti Siekkinen, Enrico Masala, Teemu Kämäräinen · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016
Live multimedia streaming from mobile devices is rapidly gaining popularity with services such as Periscope, Meerkat, and Facebook Live. However, little is known about their anatomy. In order to shed light on this matter, we examine the Periscope service. We first crawl the service to understand its usage patterns and then perform an in-depth analysis of its salient features. In particular, we study the protocols and adaptation strategies involved, the typical quality of experience indicators, such as playback smoothness and latency, video quality, and their influencing factors. Finally, we report on the energy consumption of the application.