Volunteer-based distributed traffic data collection system

Authors:
Kartheepan Balachandran;Jacob Honoré Broberg;Kasper Revsbech;Jens Myrup Pedersen
Affiliations:
Aalborg University, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg East, Denmark;Aalborg University, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg East, Denmark;Aalborg University, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg East, Denmark;Aalborg University, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg East, Denmark
Venue:
ICACT'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advanced communication technology
Year:
2010

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Abstract

An architecture for a traffic data collection system is proposed, which can collect data without having access to a backbone network. Contrary to other monitoring systems it relies on volunteers to install a program on their own computers, which will capture incoming and outgoing packets, group them into flows and send the flow data to a central server. Data can be used for studying and characterising internet traffic and for testing traffic models by regenerating real traffic. The architecture is designed to have efficient and light usage of resources on both client and server sides. Worst case performance estimates indicate that this is obtained. Tests conducted by volunteers using an implemented prototype confirm the feasibility of the system.