System, apparatuses and method for traffic profiling of mobile video streaming

An apparatus for profiling a video streaming traffic in real time within a video streaming session, wherein the video streaming traffic comprises one or more data packet flows, the apparatus being configured to:

• obtain, for each of the one or more data packet flows, a respective data packet flow pattern based on the respective data packet flow;
• compare each obtained data packet flow pattern to a pre-defined characteristic streaming pattern;
• select, as a video streaming flow, a data packet flow from the one or more data packet flows that has its data packet flow pattern close to the pre-defined characteristic streaming pattern;
• identify a buffer state of the selected video streaming flow amongst a filling state, a steady state subsequent to the filling state, and a depletion state, by observing a slope of accumulated data of the selected video streaming flow over time;
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• provide multimedia-related information of the selected video streaming flow based on its data packet flow pattern and its identified buffer state.