TY - GEN
T1 - YouTube traffic dynamics and its interplay with a tier-1 ISP
T2 - 10th Internet Measurement Conference, IMC'10
AU - Adhikari, Vijay Kumar
AU - Jain, Sourabh
AU - Zhang, Zhi Li
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In this paper we conduct an extensive and in-depth study of traffic exchanged between YouTube data centers and its users, as seen from the perspective of a tier-1 ISP in Spring 2008 after YouTube was acquired by Google but before Google did any major restructuring of YouTube. Using flow-level data collected at multiple PoPs of the ISP, we first infer where the YouTube data centers are located and where they are connected to the ISP.We then deduce the load balancing strategy used by YouTube to service user requests, and investigate how load balancing strategies and routing policies affect the traffic dynamics across YouTube and the tier-1 ISP.
AB - In this paper we conduct an extensive and in-depth study of traffic exchanged between YouTube data centers and its users, as seen from the perspective of a tier-1 ISP in Spring 2008 after YouTube was acquired by Google but before Google did any major restructuring of YouTube. Using flow-level data collected at multiple PoPs of the ISP, we first infer where the YouTube data centers are located and where they are connected to the ISP.We then deduce the load balancing strategy used by YouTube to service user requests, and investigate how load balancing strategies and routing policies affect the traffic dynamics across YouTube and the tier-1 ISP.
KW - Proportional load balancing
KW - Unseen traffic estimation
KW - YouTube
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U2 - 10.1145/1879141.1879197
DO - 10.1145/1879141.1879197
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650875998
SN - 9781450300575
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC
SP - 431
EP - 443
BT - IMC'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Internet Measurement Conference
Y2 - 1 November 2010 through 3 November 2010
ER -