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The use of multimedia service applications is growing rapidly on the Internet. These applications are generating a huge volume of network traffic, which has a great impact on network performance and planning. For various purposes, obtaining information on multimedia service traffic is important. However, traditional analysis methods based on well-known ports cannot be used to analyze such traffic. Because the majority of multimedia service applications use dynamically allocated port numbers, the traditional methods misidentify multimedia service traffic as unknown traffic. This paper presents a method for monitoring and analyzing multimedia service traffic. Our method detects transport protocol and port numbers for dynamically created sessions during a control session. We then use such information to analyze traffic generated by the most popular multimedia service applications, namely Windows Media, RealMedia, Quicktime, SIP and H.323. We also present a system architecture that uses our method to monitor and analyze multimedia service traffic.
This work was in part supported by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division at POSTECH under the BK21 program of Ministry of Education and HY-SDR Research Center at Hanyang University under the ITRC program of Ministry of Information and Communication, Korea.
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Kang, HJ., Kim, MS., Hong, J.WK. (2003). A Method on Multimedia Service Traffic Monitoring and Analysis. In: Brunner, M., Keller, A. (eds) Self-Managing Distributed Systems. DSOM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39671-0_9
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