Video quality representation classification of Safari encrypted DASH streams

Ran Dubin, Ofer Hadar, Itai Richman, Ofir Trabelsi, Amit Dvir, Ofir Pele

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    Abstract

    The increasing popularity of HTTP adaptive video streaming services has dramatically increased bandwidth requirements on operator networks, which attempt to shape their traffic through Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). However, Google and certain content providers have started to encrypt their video services. As a result, operators often encounter difficulties in shaping their encrypted video traffic via DPI. This highlights the need for new traffic classification methods for encrypted HTTP adaptive video streaming to enable smart traffic shaping. These new methods will have to effectively estimate the quality representation layer and playout buffer. We present a new method and show for the first time that video quality representation classification for (YouTube) encrypted HTTP adaptive streaming is possible. We analyze the performance of this classification method with Safari over HTTPS. Based on a large number of offline and online traffic classification experiments, we demonstrate that it can independently classify, in real time, every video segment into one of the quality representation layers with 96.13% average accuracy.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2016 Digital Media Industry and Academic Forum, DMIAF 2016 - Proceedings
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    Pages213-216
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)9781509010004
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 22 Sep 2016
    Event2016 Digital Media Industry and Academic Forum, DMIAF 2016 - Santorini, Greece
    Duration: 4 Jul 20166 Jul 2016

    Publication series

    Name2016 Digital Media Industry and Academic Forum, DMIAF 2016 - Proceedings

    Conference

    Conference2016 Digital Media Industry and Academic Forum, DMIAF 2016
    Country/TerritoryGreece
    CitySantorini
    Period4/07/166/07/16

    Keywords

    • Encrypted Traffic
    • HTTPS Video Streaming
    • Quality Representation Classification
    • Safari

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Science Applications
    • Media Technology

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