Connection-level analysis and modeling of network traffic
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
On the characteristics and origins of internet flow rates
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Analyzing peer-to-peer traffic across large networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
MRTG: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Systems Administration
Measurement, modeling, and analysis of a peer-to-peer file-sharing workload
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Characteristics of streaming media stored on the Web
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
The impact and implications of the growth in residential user-to-user traffic
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Measurements, analysis, and modeling of BitTorrent-like systems
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Youtube traffic characterization: a view from the edge
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
A comparative analysis of web and peer-to-peer traffic
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
P4p: provider portal for applications
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Performance limitations of ADSL users: a case study
PAM'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
Trends and differences in connection-behavior within classes of internet backbone traffic
PAM'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
Analysis of peer-to-peer traffic on ADSL
PAM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
Understanding Internet traffic streams: dragonflies and tortoises
IEEE Communications Magazine
A User-Influenced Pricing Mechanism for Internet Access
ICQT '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and Qos Technologies: Network Economics for Next Generation Networks
On dominant characteristics of residential broadband internet traffic
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
One-click hosting services: a file-sharing hideout
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Towards securing data delivery in peer-to-peer streaming
COMSNETS'10 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on COMmunication systems and NETworks
On economic heavy hitters: shapley value analysis of 95th-percentile pricing
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Multilayer traffic engineering for energy efficiency
Photonic Network Communications
Operating a network link at 100%
PAM'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Passive and active measurement
Omnify: investigating the visibility and effectiveness of copyright monitors
PAM'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Passive and active measurement
A design for securing data delivery in mesh-based peer-to-peer streaming
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Cooperative traffic management for video streaming overlays
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A history of an internet exchange point
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Toward scalable internet traffic measurement and analysis with Hadoop
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A measurement of mobile traffic offloading
PAM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
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It is often argued that rapidly increasing video content along with the penetration of high-speed access is leading to explosive growth in the Internet traffic. Contrary to this popular claim, technically solid reports show only modest traffic growth worldwide. This paper sheds light on the causes of the apparently slow growth trends by analyzing commercial residential traffic in Japan where the fiber access rate is much higher than other countries. We first report that Japanese residential traffic also has modest growth rates using aggregated measurements from six ISPs. Then, we investigate residential per-customer traffic in one ISP by comparing traffic in 2005 and 2008, before and after the advent of YouTube and other similar services. Although at first glance a small segment of peer-to-peer users still dictate the overall volume, they are slightly decreasing in population and volume share. Meanwhile, the rest of the users are steadily moving towards rich media content with increased diversity. Surely, a huge amount of online data and abundant headroom in access capacity can conceivably lead to a massive traffic growth at some point in the future. The observed trends, however, suggest that video content is unlikely to disastrously overflow the Internet, at least not anytime soon.