Monitoring of Video Streaming Quality from Encrypted Network Traffic: The Case of YouTube Streaming
2016 (Engelska)Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hp
Studentuppsats (Examensarbete)
Abstract [en]
The video streaming applications contribute to a major share of the Internet traffic. Consequently, monitoring and management of video streaming quality has gained a significant importance in the recent years. The disturbances in the video, such as, amount of buffering and bitrate adaptations affect user Quality of Experience (QoE). Network operators usually monitor such events from network traffic with the help of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). However, it is becoming difficult to monitor such events due to the traffic encryption. To address this challenge, this thesis work makes two key contributions. First, it presents a test-bed, which performs automated video streaming tests under controlled time-varying network conditions and measures performance at network and application level. Second, it develops and evaluates machine learning models for the detection of video buffering and bitrate adaptation events, which rely on the information extracted from packets headers. The findings of this work suggest that buffering and bitrate adaptation events within 60 second intervals can be detected using Random Forest model with an accuracy of about 70%. Moreover, the results show that the features based on time-varying patterns of downlink throughput and packet inter-arrival times play a distinctive role in the detection of such events.
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
2016. , s. 64
Nyckelord [en]
Quality of Experience, Machine Learning, Encrypted video traffic classification, Video Streaming Quality
Nationell ämneskategori
Telekommunikation
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-13336OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-13336DiVA, id: diva2:1044774
Externt samarbete
Ericsson
Ämne / kurs
ET2580 Masterarbete i elektroteknik med inriktning mot telekommunikationssystem
Utbildningsprogram
ETATE Masterprogram i Elektroteknik med inriktning mot Telekommunikation
Handledare
Examinatorer
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