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I Know what you Watch: Finding Video Titles in Encrypted Traffic

  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Ltd.

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Abstract

Based on the current era of video streams, improving the ability to identify encrypted video streams can effectively suppress the transmission of bad video streams and create a healthy network environment. This paper proposes a method to find video titles in encrypted HTTP adaptive video streaming. By analyzing the content leakage of the video platform built based on the DASH protocol and VBR, the inherent burst timing features of the video stream of this type of platform can be extracted. 10,000 pieces of video streams are collected from the Youtube platform through automated data collection. The LightGBM model is used to train burst time series features, and conduct five-fold crossvalidation. 20 % of the dataset is used as the test set, and the accuracy of the video stream is 98.77 %. Therefore, based on this method, the title of the video stream can be effectively identified.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2025 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace, DSC 2025
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages191-198
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9798331579241
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Externally publishedYes
Event2025 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace, DSC 2025 - Baoding, China
Duration: 15 Aug 202517 Aug 2025

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2025 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace, DSC 2025

Conference

Conference2025 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace, DSC 2025
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBaoding
Period15/08/2517/08/25

Keywords

  • Burst feature
  • DASH protocol
  • Encrypted traffic classification
  • LightGBM model

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