A Measurement Study of PPStream

Xiao Su; Linan Chang

ChinaCom2008-Network and Information Security Symposium

Research Article

A Measurement Study of PPStream

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685232,
    author={Xiao Su and Linan Chang},
    title={A Measurement Study of PPStream},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Network and Information Security Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-NIS},
    year={2008},
    month={11},
    keywords={peer-to-peer media streaming security analysis measurement},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685232}
}

Xiao Su
Linan Chang
Year: 2008
A Measurement Study of PPStream
CHINACOM2008-NIS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685232

Xiao Su¹^,*, Linan Chang¹^,*

1: Computer Engineering Department San Jos´e State University San José, CA 95192, USA

*Contact email: xsu@email.sjsu.edu, chang_linan@yahoo.com

Abstract

In this article, we first review the evolution of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing and media streaming systems, and then focus on one of the most popular P2P-based media streaming services – PPStream. We describe the PPStream protocol discovered through reverse engineering efforts and discuss our measurement study conducted to evaluate three aspects of the system: privacy, locality, and availability. The experiments reveal that PPStream is vulnerable to privacy exploits and is not locality-aware when selecting peers to exchange media packets. The study also finds that PPStream is fairly robust against packet filtering-based Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks that target its channel discovery, peer registration, and peer discovery protocols.

Keywords: peer-to-peer media streaming security analysis measurement

Published: 2008-11-21
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685232