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Wide-area Internet traffic patterns and characteristics (1997)
| Venue: | IEEE NETWORK |
| Citations: | 518 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Thompson97wide-areainternet,
author = {Kevin Thompson and Gregory J. Miller and Rick Wilder},
title = {Wide-area Internet traffic patterns and characteristics},
journal = {IEEE NETWORK},
year = {1997},
volume = {11},
pages = {10--23}
}
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Abstract
The Internet is rapidly growing in number of users, traffic levels, and topological complexity. At the same time it is increasingly driven by economic competition. These developments render the characterization of network usage and workloads more difficult, and yet more critical. Few recent studies have been published reporting Internet backbone traffic usage and characteristics. At MCI, we have implemented a high-performance, low-cost monitoring system that can capture traffic and perform analyses. We have deployed this monitoring tool on OC-3 trunks within internetMCIâs backbone and also within the NSF-sponsored vBNS. This paper presents observations on the patterns and characteristics of wide-area Internet traffic, as recorded by MCIâs OC-3 traffic monitors. We report on measurements from two OC-3 trunks in MCIâs commercial Internet backbone over two time ranges (24-hour and 7-day) in the presence of up to 240,000 flows. We reveal the characteristics of the traffic in terms of packet sizes, flow duration, volume, and percentage composition by protocol and application, as well as patterns seen over the two time scales.
Keyphrases
wide-area internet traffic pattern oc-3 trunk low-cost monitoring system percentage composition network usage flow duration monitoring tool packet size economic competition time range perform analysis commercial internet backbone recent study oc-3 traffic monitor traffic level internetmci backbone wide-area internet traffic internet backbone traffic usage nsf-sponsored vbns time scale topological complexity
