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In recent years, Video on Demand (VoD) streaming has increased exponentially as a result of reduced streaming costs and higher bandwidth. For retention of consumers, it is crucial for content providers to understand the behavior of their users and continuously improve performance. In this paper, we analyze the user behavior on Globo.com, the largest content distribution service in Brazil. We consider 1.4 billion logs spanning a period of four weeks from October 25, 2020 to November 21, 2020. We analyze the user request patterns and the trends in server’s response time. We explore metrics such as protocol, status code, cache hits, user agent, content category popularity and geographical distribution of users. We finally investigate the video popularity distribution and trends in size of content downloaded. We observe that the highest number of requests occur between 8 pm and 11 pm. We observe that 57% of requests are served over HTTPS, while significant portion (43%) are still served over HTTP. Our analysis also reveals that nearly 97% of requests result in a cache hit. Additionally, we observe that the video popularity distribution is skewed and follows a power law with 10% of the videos accounting for 87% of the requests.
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Raj, R., Kulkarni, A., Seetharam, A., Ramesh, A., de A. Rocha, A.A. (2022). Analyzing Aggregate User Behavior on a Large Multi-platform Content Distribution Service. In: Bao, W., Yuan, X., Gao, L., Luan, T.H., Choi, D.B.J. (eds) Ad Hoc Networks and Tools for IT. ADHOCNETS TridentCom 2021 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 428. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98005-4_12
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