Traffic Measurement Study on Video Streaming with the Amazon Echo Show
Frank Loh, Viktoria Vomhoff, Florian Wamser, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld · 2019
The Amazon Echo Show is one of the most widely used smart speakers with the ability to stream video. Due to its popularity, the traffic profiles of such devices are of interest to network operators and providers. This work presents a measurement study of the Amazon Echo Show in terms of network traffic and streaming behavior. More than 470\,hours of streaming data are collected and analyzed at network layer. Based on this, streaming quality is derived at application layer. The study quantifies the traffic and shows that streaming with the Amazon Echo Show is comparable to streaming with a native web browser, but in a more conservative way.