Avaliação de transmissão ao vivo de grandes eventos pela internet

Abstract

Streaming media on internet is currently a growing trend. In particular, video-on-demand (VoD) scenario is already quite consolidated. Although, live streaming still facing challenges, specially during large-scale events, which may attract a large number of viewers. In this work, we characterize two large-scale Internet live streaming sport events. These events were streamed free of charge through a web portal accessed via HTTP protocol by one of the largest content provider in Latin America. Our characterization relies on access logs we have obtained from the content provider’s web server. We quantify the impact of a large-scale event transmission on content provider servers. We also characterize the quality of service end users receive. Our results show that video servers receive substantial network load during a large-scale event. Moreover, this network load can vary significantly among distinct matches, which difficult capacity provisioning. In addition we present a map of the Brazilian Internet access distribution based on observations about the media content received by customers.