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Internet Traffic Measurements: An IntroductionOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
In the last decade, the Internet has gained a great attention as a
backbone for almost all commercial and personal communications
based on the current networks’ infrastructures. Predicting
the network behavior under the current situation of mixed
traffic that comes from different applications seems very difficult
and gets complicated day after day. Unfortunately, the
rapid developments in communication technologies have reduced
the capability to measure, analyze, and evaluate of the
Internet traffic, applications and protocols.
Passive traffic analysis is the methodology that provides a complete
picture about the network traffic, and provides enough
information to fully understand the behavior of the network
components from different perspectives. The objective of the
traffic analysis process is to characterize the network and user
behavior from reliable traffic traces. Passive traffic analysis is
based on collecting the network traffic into trace files. Following
on, the traffic analysis process is conducted over these files.
The key challenges of the passive traffic analysis methodology
lie in the trace accuracy and reliability.
In this thesis, a traffic collection and analysis system is presented
for automatically and continuously collecting and an.