Case study: Traffic analysis of trans-Atlantic traffic

Authors:
Ian Wakeman;Dave Lewis;Jon Crowcroft
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK;Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK;Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Venue:
Computer Communications
Year:
1993

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Packet Trains--Measurements and a New Model for Computer Network Traffic

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

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Abstract

This paper analyses the international IP traffic generated from the UK academic community to the US and the rest of the world, along with some from European coutries to the US. Five million packets were captured in August 1991, and analysed to produce aggregate statistics on the pattern of protocol usage. These statistics are compared against similar statistics that were gathered in March 1991. The paper describes the results of traffic monitoring and analysis carried out on 21st August 1991 at the University of London Computing Centre (ULCC). The data includes all traffic that passed along the UK-US academic network link, with the exception noted below, as well as some traffic between the US and UK academic networks and sites in Europe. This work builds on a previous analysis of traffic at this site^1, and aims to draw a comparison with these earlier results to demonstrate some effects of network topology changes and growth.