NDLI: Dissecting Video Server Selection Strategies in the YouTube CDN

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Torres, R. Finamore, A. Jin Ryong Kim Mellia, M. Munafo, M.M. Rao, Sanjay
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	In this paper, we conduct a detailed study of the YouTube CDN with a view to understanding the mechanisms and policies used to determine which data centers users download video from. Our analysis is conducted using week-long datasets simultaneously collected from the edge of five networks - two university campuses and three ISP networks - located in three different countries. We employ state-of-the-art delay-based geolocation techniques to find the geographical location of YouTube servers. A unique aspect of our work is that we perform our analysis on groups of related YouTube flows. This enables us to infer key aspects of the system design that would be difficult to glean by considering individual flows in isolation. Our results reveal that while the RTT between users and data centers plays a role in the video server selection process, a variety of other factors may influence this selection including load-balancing, diurnal effects, variations across DNS servers within a network, limited availability of rarely accessed video, and the need to alleviate hot-spots that may arise due to popular video content.
Starting Page	248
Ending Page	257
File Size	443556
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612843841
ISSN	10636927
DOI	10.1109/ICDCS.2011.43
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-06-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Servers YouTube IP networks Google Europe Geology Internet internet services Content distribution networks Web
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software

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