YouTube Dataset on Mobile Streaming for Internet Traffic Modeling, Network Management, and Streaming Analysis

Streaming is by far the predominant type of traffic in communication networks. With thispublic dataset, we provide 1,081 hours of time-synchronous video measurements at network, transport, and application layer with the native YouTube streaming client on mobile devices. The dataset includes 80 network scenarios with 171 different individual bandwidth settings measured in 5,181 runs with limited bandwidth, 1,939 runs with emulated 3G/4G traces, and 4,022 runs with pre-defined bandwidth changes. This corresponds to 332GB video payload. We present the most relevant quality indicators for scientific use, i.e., initial playback delay, streaming video quality, adaptive video quality changes, video rebuffering events, and streaming phases.