Behind Skype
An Analysis of the
Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol is an interesting tech report on the workings of
Skype. (
Skype is a P2P VoIP client which is gaining immense popularity for it's ease-of-use, voice quality and seamless working over NATs and firewalls.) Since the technology used in
Skype is not open, the authors have discovered the workings by analysing the network traffic generated by
Skype. One of the authors of the report is Henning Schulzrinne, who is incidentally one of the main guys behind the development of SIP.
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~library...ucs-039-04.pdf
Behind Skype
