Quantifying the Extent of IPv6 Deployment
PAM '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
Analysis of UDP Traffic Usage on Internet Backbone Links
SAINT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Ninth Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet
Understanding the efficacy of deployed internet source address validation filtering
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Observations of IPv6 addresses
PAM'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
Evaluating IPv6 adoption in the internet
PAM'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Passive and active measurement
CNGI-CERNET2: an IPv6 deployment in China
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A study of traffic, user behavior and pricing policies in a large campus network
Computer Communications
Assessing IPv6 through web access a measurement study and its findings
Proceedings of the Seventh COnference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
Twelve years in the evolution of the internet ecosystem
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Unmasking the growing UDP traffic in a campus network
PAM'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Investigating IPv6 traffic: what happened at the world IPv6 day?
PAM'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Measuring the deployment of IPv6: topology, routing and performance
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
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Our understanding of IPv6 traffic cannot keep up with the growth of IPv6 traffic. Unraveling the characteristics of traffic is essential for network scale expansion, network technology selection, network management and security enhancement. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive study of IPv6 traffic based on the packet-level traces of a nation-wide pure IPv6 network - CERNET2, and track user behaviors in 6TUNET, one of the largest campus network in CERNET2, by binding IP address with user name. We first analyze the usage and development of IPv6 network, especially user behaviors and new technologies, e.g. the efficiency of fine-grained source address validation technology which is widely deployed in CERNET2. Then we investigate the distribution of the aggregate traffic and the results reveal that traffic distribution is highly skewed among protocols, ports, applications and hosts. We pay particular attention to dominating protocols, ports, applications and hosts, as well as special protocols of IPv6 network, e.g. the usage of extension headers, which supplement the simplified basic header of IPv6. At last, we model the skewness in traffic distribution and present the dynamics of the traffic from the aspects of traffic prediction and inference. Based on the analysis, we obtain a comprehensive knowledge of IPv6 traffic which, we believe, can provide an experimental basis for IPv6 network operators and researchers.