Deutsch Intern
Chair of Computer Science III

YouTube Video Streaming

Research Area

Research Area: YouTube Video Streaming

We deal within the CAN group with the research field "YouTube Video Streaming".

YouTube is one of the most popular services in today’s Internet. It has more than 1 billion users and every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours of YouTube videos. Half of those YouTube views are on mobile devices. On the one hand, (mobile) operators want to handle the huge amount of video traffic as efficiently as possible (high revenue per bit), on the other hand, they want to deliver a high Quality of Experience (QoE) to satisfy their customers. Therefore, it is very important for operators to understand the performance of their networks with respect to YouTube traffic.

We investigate the properties of the video streaming.
We offer tools for the analysis of the play behavior and define QoE models.

Best Paper Award auf der CNSM 2018

Best Demonstration Award auf der TMA 2018

Demo @ IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2018: QoE Monitoring of the Native Android YouTube App

Selected Findings and Results

Modeling the operation and traffic of YouTube:

  • Modeling the YouTube Stack: from Packets to Quality of Experience. Wamser, Florian; Casas, Pedro; Seufert, Michael; Moldovan, Christian; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Hoßfeld, Tobias. In Computer Networks, 109(2), pp. 211–224. 2016.

Software Tool to evaluate YouTube QoE for mobile networks:

YoMo - Wrapper App
A Wrapper App for YouTube's Native App
Poster (PDF)  |  Publications  |  Contact
http://github.com/lsinfo3/yomo-wrapperapp
 
  • YoMoApp: a Tool for Analyzing QoE of YouTube HTTP Adaptive Streaming in Mobile Networks. Wamser, Florian; Seufert, Michael; Casas, Pedro; Irmer, Ralf; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Schatz, Raimund. In European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC). Paris, France, 2015.

Publications

2021[ to top ]
  • Uplink vs. Downlink: Machine Learning-Based Quality Prediction for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming. Loh, Frank; Poignée, Fabian; Wamser, Florian; Leidinger, Ferdinand; Hoßfeld, Tobias. In Sensors, 21(12), p. 4172. 2021.
2019[ to top ]
  • To Share or Not to Share? How Exploitation of Context Data Can Improve In-Network QoE Monitoring of Encrypted YouTube Streams. Orsolic, Irena; Skorin-Kapov, Lea; Hoßfeld, Tobias. In 2019 Eleventh International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) (QoMEX 2019). 2019.
2018[ to top ]
  • A Fair Share for All: Novel Adaptation Logic for QoE Fairness of HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming. Seufert, Michael; Wehner, Nikolas; Casas, Pedro; Wamser, Florian. In 14th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Best Paper Award. Rome, Italy, 2018.
  • Beauty is in the Eye of the Smartphone Holder - A Data Driven Analysis of YouTube Mobile QoE. Wehner, Nikolas; Wassermann, Sarah; Casas, Pedro; Seufert, Michael; Wamser, Florian. In 14th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Rome, Italy, 2018.
  • Impact of VNF Placements on QoE Monitoring in the Cloud. Dinh-Xuan, Lam; Popp, Christian; Burger, Valentin; Wamser, Florian; Hoßfeld, Tobias. In International Journal of Network Management, (NEM-18-0120.R1). 2018.
  • A Wrapper for Automatic Measurements with YouTube’s Native Android App. Seufert, Michael; Zeidler, Bernd; Wamser, Florian; Karagkioules, Theodoros; Tsilimantos, Dimitrios; Loh, Frank; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Valentin, Stefan. In Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA). Vienna, Austria, 2018.
  • A Wrapper for Automated Measurements with YouTube’s Native App. Loh, Frank; Karagkioules, Theodoros; Seufert, Michael; Zeidler, Bernd; Tsilimantos, Dimitrios; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Valentin, Stefan; Wamser, Florian. Taipei, Taiwan, 2018, April.
2017[ to top ]
  • YouTube QoE Monitoring with YoMoApp: a Mobile App for Crowdsourced YouTube QoE Analysis. Seufert, Michael; Wehner, Nikolas; Wamser, Florian; Casas, Pedro. London, UK, 2017, November.
  • Unsupervised QoE Field Study for Mobile YouTube Video Streaming with YoMoApp. Seufert, Michael; Wehner, Nikolas; Wamser, Florian; Casas, Pedro; D’Alconzo, Alessandro; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In 9th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX). Erfurt, Germany, 2017.
2016[ to top ]
  • Modeling the YouTube Stack: from Packets to Quality of Experience. Wamser, Florian; Casas, Pedro; Seufert, Michael; Moldovan, Christian; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Hoßfeld, Tobias. In Computer Networks, 109(2), pp. 211–224. 2016.