Mobile Live Streaming: Insights from the Periscope Service

Leonardo Favario; Matti Siekkinen; Enrico Masala

doi:10.1109/MMSP.2016.7813395

Mobile Live Streaming: Insights from the Periscope Service

Leonardo Favario, Matti Siekkinen, Enrico Masala

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Abstract

Live video streaming from mobile devices is quickly becoming popular through services such as Periscope, Meerkat, and Facebook Live. Little is known, however, about how such services tackle the challenges of the live mobile streaming scenario. This work addresses such gap by investigating in details the characteristics of the Periscope service. A large number of publicly available streams have been captured and analyzed in depth, in particular studying the characteristics of the encoded streams and the communication evolution over time. Such an investigation allows to get an insight into key performance parameters such as bandwidth, latency, buffer levels and freezes, as well as the limits and strategies adopted by Periscope to deal with this challenging application scenario.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2016
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509037247
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MMSP.2016.7813395
Publication status	Published - 23 Sep 2016
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing - Montreal, Canada Duration: 20 Sep 2016 → 23 Sep 2016 Conference number: 18

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Name	IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Electronic)	2163-3517

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Workshop	IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
Abbreviated title	MMSP
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	20/09/2016 → 23/09/2016

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Favario, L, Siekkinen, M & Masala, E 2016, Mobile Live Streaming: Insights from the Periscope Service. in 2016 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2016., 7813395, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, IEEE, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, 20/09/2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/MMSP.2016.7813395

Mobile Live Streaming: Insights from the Periscope Service. / Favario, Leonardo; Siekkinen, Matti; Masala, Enrico.

2016 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 2016. IEEE, 2016. 7813395 (IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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