Index of /datasets/2018-pam-youtube-load-balancing
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youtube.csv.gz 2018-03-26 11:45 553K
md5.md5 2018-04-29 23:29 92
linkid.csv 2018-03-26 13:35 1.1K
caida-aua.pdf 2014-07-22 11:39 12K
README.txt 2023-10-17 14:43 1.4K
This is the data supplement for the paper:
"Revealing the Load-Balancing Behavior of YouTube Traffic on Interdomain Links",
V. Bajpai, R. Mok, A. Dhamdhere, and k. claffy,
in: Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Mar 2018.
https://catalog.caida.org/details/paper/2018_revealing_load_balancing_behavior/
It contains two files: linked.csv and youtube.csv.gz.
linkid.csv:
The first column is the alias ID of the link. The second column is the far-side
IP of the link. Different IPs with the same Alias ID represents the same IP
alias detected by MIDAR.
youtube.csv.gz (gzip compressed):
Columns are:
<time>, <monitor name>, <video cache hostname>, <video cache IP>, <ASN>, <Near side IP>, <Far side IP>
<time>:
Unix time (UTC) when the YouTube measurement was performed.
<monitor name>:
The name of SamKnow probes, in the format of samsboxXX,
where XX can refer to
http://cnds.eecs.jacobs-university.de/users/vbajpai/yt-ccr-2017/metadata.txt
for the probe's metadata.
<video cache hostname>, <video cache IP>:
The hostname and the IP of the video cache that the YouTube test streamed
the video data from.
<ASN>:
The ASN of the far-side of the interdomain link
<Near side IP>/<Far side IP>:
The near/far side IP of the interdomain link found in the traceroute
performed to the video cache IP immediately after the YouTube test.