Categorizing Interactive IP Traffic-Skype

Enhanced Skype traffic identification

Skype applies strong encryption to provide secure communication inside the whole Skype network. The communication ports of clients are chosen randomly. As a consequence, traditional port based or payload based identification of Skype traffic cannot be applied. In this paper we present a novel flow dynamics based identification method to discover both Skype hosts and voice calls. The method is b...

A statistical approach to classify Skype traffic

Abstract- Skype is one of the most powerful and high-quality chat tools that allows its users to use of many services such as: transferring audio, sending messages, video conferencing and audio for free. Skype traffic has a lot of Internet traffic. Hence, Internet service providers need to identify traffic to do the quality of service and network management. On the other hand, Skype developers ...

A detailed measurement of skype network traffic

The last few years witnessed peer-2-peer (P2P) and VoIP telephony gaining a tremendous popularity: Skype is beyond doubt the most amazing example of this new phenomenon, as its 170 millions users testify. In this paper, we propose a detailed measurement of Skype sources: we adopt a twofold methodology, using active experiments and passive measurement to gain knowledge about the traffic Skype ge...

Traffic analysis attacks on Skype VoIP calls

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Characteristics of Fragmented Ip Traffic