Session

Computer Science and Communication Engineering

Description

With the rapid increase demand for data usage, Internet has become complex and harder to analyze. Characterizing the Internet traffic might reveal information that are important for Network Operators to formulate policy decisions, develop techniques to detect network anomalies, help better provision network resources (capacity, buffers) and use workload characteristics for simulations (typical packet sizes, flow durations, common protocols).

In this paper, using passive monitoring and measurements, we show collected data traffic at Internet backbone routers. First, we reveal main observations on patterns and characteristics of this dataset including packet sizes, traffic volume for inter and intra domain and protocol composition. Second, we further investigate independence structure of packet size arrivals using both visual and computational statistics. Finally, we show the temporal behavior of most active destination IP and Port addresses.

Keywords:

Internet, traffic, dataset, characteristics, Network Operator

Session Chair

Edmond Jajaga

Session Co-Chair

Xhafer Krasniqi

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-60-8

First Page

72

Last Page

79

Location

Durres, Albania

Start Date

27-10-2017 4:15 PM

End Date

27-10-2017 6:00 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.89

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Oct 27th, 4:15 PM Oct 27th, 6:00 PM

Characteristics and Temporal Behavior of Internet Backbone Traffic

Durres, Albania

With the rapid increase demand for data usage, Internet has become complex and harder to analyze. Characterizing the Internet traffic might reveal information that are important for Network Operators to formulate policy decisions, develop techniques to detect network anomalies, help better provision network resources (capacity, buffers) and use workload characteristics for simulations (typical packet sizes, flow durations, common protocols).

In this paper, using passive monitoring and measurements, we show collected data traffic at Internet backbone routers. First, we reveal main observations on patterns and characteristics of this dataset including packet sizes, traffic volume for inter and intra domain and protocol composition. Second, we further investigate independence structure of packet size arrivals using both visual and computational statistics. Finally, we show the temporal behavior of most active destination IP and Port addresses.