The Secrets of Skype Login

DOI

10.2991/ccis-13.2013.35How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Skype Login; Login Server; Skype Client; Protocol Identification, Traffic Classification

Abstract

Skype is beyond any doubt the most popular VoIP application on the Internet. Its amazing success has drawn the great attention of telecom operators and the research communities, both are interested in knowing its internal mechanism, characterizing its traffic, and understanding its users’ behavior. However, due to its proprietary, these problems have not been completely solved, which likes a black box that hides a lot of secrets. Skype login is the first step of the whole communication process and very critical for guaranteeing the Quality of Service. This paper aims to reveal the secrets of Skype login. Based on a lot of experiments and observations, we deeply analyze the Skype login, and completely make clear the various functions, traffic characteristics and login process of Skype. Uncovering these secrets is very useful for protocol identification, traffic classification, network management and optimization.

Copyright

© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qi Po
AU  - Du Cuilan
AU  - Ren Yan
AU  - Xue Yibo
PY  - 2013/11
DA  - 2013/11
TI  - The Secrets of Skype Login
BT  - Proceedings of the The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Information Security
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 148
EP  - 151
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ccis-13.2013.35
DO  - 10.2991/ccis-13.2013.35
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ER  -