Modeling and Characterizing Internet Backbone Traffic

作者：Yang Jie^*; He Yang; Lin Ping; Cheng Gang

来源：China Communications, 2010, 7(5): 49-56.

• traffic characterization
• measurement
• traffic pattern
• behavior
• flow statistical characteristics

With enormous growth of the number of Internet users and appearance of new applications, characterization of Internet traffic has attracted more and more attention and has become one of the major challenging issues in telecommunication network over the past few years. In this paper, we study the network traffic pattern of the aggregate traffic and of specific application traffic, especially the popular applications such as P2P, VoIP that contribute most network traffic. Our study verified that majority Internet backbone traffic is contributed by a small portion of users and a power function can be used to approximate the contribution of each user to the overall traffic. We show that P2P applications are the dominant traffic contributor in current Internet Backbone of China. In addition, we selectively present the traffic pattern of different applications in detail.

• 出版日期2010-11
• 单位北京邮电大学