Twitch’s CDN as an Open Population Ecosystem
Wei-Shiang Wung, Guan-Ting Ting, Ruey-Tzer Hsu, Cheng Hsu, Yu-Chien Tsai, Caleb Wang, Yuan-Tai Liu, Hsi Chen, Polly Huang · Asian Internet Engineering Conference · 2021
The quality and continuity of the video services such as Twitch depend on the scale and well-being of their content distribution networks (CDNs). Each CDN may consist of 1000s of servers, physically feeding the videos to the clients. Opting for a better understanding, researchers have attempted to measure and analyze the CDNs of popular video services [10, 11, 12, 19]. These works are, however, one-time effort. Given the widespread use of Twitch, we find continuous survey of its CDN an important subject of study.