MeshTrust: A CDN-Centric Trust Model for Reputation Management on Video Traffic

Abstract

Video applications today are more often deploying content delivery networks (CDNs) for content delivery. However, by decoupling the owner of the content and the organization serving it, CDNs could be abused by attackers to commit network crimes. Traditional flow-level measurements for generating reputation of IPs and domain names for video applications are insufficient. In this paper, we present MeshTrust, a novel approach that assessing reputation of service providers on video traffic automatically. We tackle the challenge from two aspects: The multi-tenancy structure representation and CDN-centric trust model. First, by mining behavioral and semantic characteristics, a Mesh Graph consisting of video websites, CDN nodes and their relations is constructed. Second, we introduce a novel CDN-centric trust model which transforms Mesh Graph into Trust Graph based on extended network embedding methods. Based on the labeled nodes in Trust Graph, a reputation score can be easily calculated and applied to real-time reputation management on video traffic. Our experiments show that MeshTrust can differentiate normal and illegal video websites with accuracy approximately 95% in a real cloud environment.