Video Usage in Cellular Networks

Video is a dominant factor in mobile traffic today. As smart phones become more and more popular, more people watch videos on their smart phones. However, the investment of ISPs, such as AT&T and Verizon, lags far behind. There is a huge gap between demand and supply in wireless bandwidth in cellular networks today. I did some research on the characteristics of video traffic. I mainly read some reports from ByteMobile (http://www.bytemobile.com/index.html).

Video traffic characteristics:

  • Video occupies 50% of the traffic.
  • Video users watch 10 videos sequentially, each of which is 60-90 seconds long on average.
  • On an average day, 17% laptop users, 11% iPhone users, 7% Android users, <1% feature phone users consume video content.
  • 10% users generate approximately 90% of total traffic.
  • 40% of total data volume is generated by the top 3% of videos requested.
  • Average video size 5minutes, but only watch about 1 minutes.

 

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