• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
    Monthly Online Journal (eISSN: 1976-7277)

Video Quality Representation Classification of Encrypted HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming

Vol. 12, No. 8, August 30, 2018
10.3837/tiis.2018.08.014 , Download Paper (Free):

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 machine learning method and show for the first time that video quality representation classification for (YouTube) encrypted HTTP adaptive streaming is possible. The crawler codes and the datasets are provided in [43,44,51]. An extensive empirical evaluation shows that our method is able to independently classify every video segment into one of the quality representation layers with 97% accuracy if the browser is Safari with a Flash Player and 77% accuracy if the browser is Chrome, Explorer, Firefox or Safari with an HTML5 player.


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[IEEE Style]
R. Dubin, O. Hadar, A. Dvir, O. Pele, "Video Quality Representation Classification of Encrypted HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 3804-3819, 2018. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2018.08.014 .

[ACM Style]
Ran Dubin, Ofer Hadar, Amit Dvir, and Ofir Pele. 2018. Video Quality Representation Classification of Encrypted HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 12, 8, (2018), 3804-3819. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2018.08.014 .

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:21842, title="Video Quality Representation Classification of Encrypted HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming", author="Ran Dubin and Ofer Hadar and Amit Dvir and Ofir Pele and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2018.08.014 }, volume={12}, number={8}, year="2018", month={August}, pages={3804-3819}}