Buffer occupancy feedback security control and changing encryption keys to protect MOD services

  • Authors:
  • Jen-Chieh Lai;Chia-Hui Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • PSIVT'06 Proceedings of the First Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Image and Video Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present an effective security control for multimedia streaming in public network via buffer-occupancy feedback controls of client's playback buffer. There is a wide variety of multimedia-on-demand (MOD) applications can benefit from this end-to-end security control to protect the streaming data. Because the encryption/decryption for video packets are time-consuming process, our observation is that the playback buffer occupancy (PBO) can simply indicate the time availability to adjust the security level to affect the sending rate for the packet delivery. That is to say, adjusting security level can be applied further to keep the PBO away from buffer overflow and underflow. Therefore, we propose a feedback control of PBO not only to protect the MOD services from eavesdroppers, but also maintain the playback quality. To further boost the protection, we also apply Diffie-Hellman key negotiation method to provide the dynamic key changes while the PBO is controlled at a stable range for a long period. Moreover, due to the network uncertainty, different content delivery in MOD service will preserve different running PBOs. Then, they may have different applied security levels and key changes in service sessions. It will make eavesdroppers more difficult to recover the whole encrypted media data. In this paper, we also demonstrate the performance of encryption protection and preserved playback quality in our proposed schemes by experiments on a true VOD system with well-known encryptions of DES, 2DES and 3DES.