A campus-level view of Netflix and Twitch: Characterization and performance implications
Michel Laterman, Martin F. Arlitt, Carey L. Williamson · 2017
Video streaming is a major contributor to modern Internet traffic. In this paper, we use data collected from a campus edge network to characterize two popular video streaming services: Netflix and Twitch. While these video streaming services provide inherently different types of content, namely video-on-demand and live-streaming, they nonetheless exhibit many similarities in traffic patterns, protocol usage, content popularity, and growth. We identify seven similarities and differences, and discuss how these could be leveraged to improve streaming video content delivery on the Internet in the future.