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The impact and implications of the growth in residential user-to-user traffic (2006)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Cho, Kenjiro Fukuda, Kensuke Kato, Akira |
| Description | In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review It has been reported worldwide that peer-to-peer traffic is taking up a significant portion of backbone networks. In particular, it is prominent in Japan because of the high penetration rate of fiber-based broadband access. In this paper, we first report aggregated traffic measurements collected over 21 months from seven ISPs covering 42 % of the Japanese backbone traffic. The backbone is dominated by symmetric residential traffic which increased 37 % in 2005. We further investigate residential per-customer traffic in one of the ISPs by comparing DSL and fiber users, heavy-hitters and normal users, and geographic traffic matrices. The results reveal that a small segment of users dictate the overall behavior; 4 % of heavy-hitters account for 75 % of the inbound volume, and the fiber users account for 86 % of the inbound volume. About 63 % of the total residential volume is user-to-user traffic. The dominant applications exhibit poor locality and communicate with a wide range and number of peers. The distribution of heavy-hitters is heavy-tailed without a clear boundary between heavy-hitters and normal users, which suggests that users start playing with peer-to-peer applications, become heavy-hitters, and eventually shift from DSL to fiber. We provide conclusive empirical evidence from a large and diverse set of commercial backbone data that the emergence of new attractive applications has drastically affected traffic usage and capacity engineering requirements. |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Publisher Date | 2006-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Peer-to-peer Traffic Symmetric Residential Traffic Clear Boundary Backbone Network Traffic Usage Peer-to-peer Application Investigate Residential Per-customer Traffic Inbound Volume Commercial Backbone Data Fiber User Conclusive Empirical Evidence Traffic Measurement High Penetration Rate Japanese Backbone Traffic Total Residential Volume Significant Portion User-to-user Traffic Residential User-to-user Traffic Fiber-based Broadband Access Poor Locality Wide Range Geographic Traffic Matrix New Attractive Application Diverse Set Capacity Engineering Requirement Dominant Application Normal User Overall Behavior Small Segment |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
