An Analysis on a YouTube-like UGC site with Enhanced Social Features

Abstract

YouTube-like User Generated Content (UGC) sites are nowadays entertaining over a billion people. Resource provision is essential for these giant UGC sites as they allow users to request videos from a potentially unlimited selection in an asynchronous fashion. Still, the UGC sites are seeking to create new viewing patterns and social interactions that would engage and attract more users and complicate the already rigorous resource provision problem. In this paper, we seek to combine these two tasks by leveraging social features to provide the reference for resource provision.