Understanding the evolution of multimedia content in the internet through bittorrent glasses

Reza Farahbakhsh; Noél Crespi; Ángel Cuevas; Rubén Cuevas; Roberto González

doi:10.1109/MNET.2013.6678931

Understanding the evolution of multimedia content in the internet through bittorrent glasses

Reza Farahbakhsh
, Noél Crespi
, Ángel Cuevas
, Rubén Cuevas
, Roberto González

Institut Mines-Télécom
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Today's Internet traffic is mostly dominated by multimedia content and the prediction is that this trend will intensify in the future. Therefore, main Internet players, such as ISPs, content delivery platforms (e.g. Youtube, Bitorrent, Netflix, etc) or CDN operators, need to understand the evolution of multimedia content availability and popularity in order to adapt their infrastructures and resources to satisfy clients requirements while they minimize their costs. This paper presents a thorough analysis on the evolution of multimedia content available in BitTorrent. Specifically, we analyze the evolution of four relevant metrics across different content categories: content availability, content popularity, content size and user¿s feedback. To this end we leverage a large-scale dataset formed by four snapshots collected from the most popular BitTorrent portal, namely The Pirate Bay, between Nov. 2009 and Feb. 2012. Overall our dataset is formed by more than 160k content that attracted more than 185M of download sessions.

Original language	English
Article number	6678931
Pages (from-to)	80-88
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Network
Volume	27
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2013.6678931
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2013
Externally published	Yes

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