Understanding the characteristics of internet short video sharing: A youtube-based measurement study

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1184-1194

  Cheng, Xu ^a   Liu, Jiangchuan ^a   Dale, Cameron ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Measurement; Peer to peer; Social network; YouTube

Indexed keywords

ACCESS PATTERNS; DISTRIBUTION SCHEME; MEASUREMENT STUDY; NETWORK TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; PEER TO PEER; STREAMING VIDEOS; STRONG CORRELATION; YOUTUBE;

INTERNET; MEASUREMENTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84880807128     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2013.2265531     Document Type: Article

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