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Jörg Ott

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arXiv2014

Characterizing Internet Video for Large-scale Active Measurements

The availability of high definition video content on the web has brought about a significant change in the characteristics of Internet video, but not many studies on characterizing video have been done after this change. Video characteristics such as video length, format, target bit rate, and resolution provide valuable input to design Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) algorithms, sizing playout buffers in Dynamic Adaptive HTTP streaming (DASH) players, model the variability in video frame sizes, etc. This paper presents datasets collected in 2013 and 2014 that contains over 130,000 videos from YouTube's most viewed (or most popular) video charts in 58 countries. We describe the basic characteristics of the videos on YouTube for each category, format, video length, file size, and data rate variation, observing that video length and file size fit a log normal distribution. We show that three minutes of a video suffice to represent its instant data rate fluctuation and that we can infer data rate characteristics of different video resolutions from a single given one. Based on our findings, we design active measurements for measuring the performance of Internet video.

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arXiv2012

Criticality of Large Delay Tolerant Networks via Directed Continuum Percolation in Space-Time

We study delay tolerant networking (DTN) and in particular, its capacity to store, carry and forward messages so that the messages eventually reach their final destinations. We approach this broad question in the framework of percolation theory. To this end, we assume an elementary mobility model, where nodes arrive to an infinite plane according to a Poisson point process, move a certain distance L, and then depart. In this setting, we characterize the mean density of nodes required to support DTN style networking. In particular, under the given assumptions, we show that DTN is feasible when the mean node degree is greater than 4 e(g), where parameter g=L/d is the ratio of the distance L to the transmission range d, and e(g) is the critical reduced number density of tilted cylinders in a directed continuum percolation model. By means of Monte Carlo simulations, we give numerical values for e(g). The asymptotic behavior of e(g) when g tends to infinity is also derived from a fluid flow analysis.

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