Analysis of Mobile-Live-Users of a Large CDN

Media streaming is one of the key applications on the Internet, with mobile devices becoming each day more powerful and popular. Although mobile users have experienced a large improvement in wireless access networks in the last years, live-streaming videos still face several challenges, especially for large-scale popular events. Therefore, understanding live streaming for mobile users becomes imperative nowadays. This paper targets at the characterization of mobile user behaviors, The main goal of this paper is to understand the behavior of mobile users when watching large popular live events in Brazil, such as 2016 former Brazilian president Impeachment and 2016 Opening Ceremony for Rio Olympic Games. We focus our analysis on comprehending the influence of interruptions on the session duration and new attempts to rejoin the video transmission. The results show that a significant number of mobile users experiences low transmission rates and the type of event imply different user behaviors.