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The deep penetration of Online Social Networks (OSNs) have made them major portals for video content sharing. It is known that a significant portion of the accesses to video sharing sites are now coming from OSN users. Yet the unique features of video sharing over OSNs and their impact remain largely unknown. In this paper, we present a measurement study towards understanding the video requests from...
Recent statistics suggest that online social network (OSN) users regularly share video contents from video sharing sites (VSSes), and a significant amount of views of VSSes are indeed from OSN users nowadays. By crawling and comparing the statistics of same videos shared in both RenRen (the largest Facebook-like OSN in China) and Youku (the largest Youtube-like VSS in China), we find that the huge...
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of online video sharing as a new killer Internet application. Yet, given limited network and server resources, user experience with existing video sharing sites are far from being satisfactory. To alleviate the bottleneck, peer-to-peer delivering has been suggested as an effective tool with success already seen in accelerating individual sites. The numerous...
Unlike P2P-based live streaming, P2P-based video-on-demand (P2P-VoD) has asynchrony in sharing video content among users. To compensate, each peer is expected to contribute a fixed amount of disk space, which forms a distributed P2P storage system. How to regulate this storage system is undoubtedly one of the most important strategies in P2P-VoD systems. PPLive, a large-scale P2P-VoD system, has made...
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