Research, Traffic generation

Internet measurement:

Tools and methods that capture and analyse network traffic;

·         Packet capture:  ‘The most fundamental tool for traffic analysis is packet capture, which is also called passive traffic measurement.’

·         Packet trains:  ‘Packet train traces are a broadly useful summary of traffic; they can be used for monitoring basic network activity, monitoring user, and applications.’

·         Sampling: ‘Random sampling; packets are chosen for sampling with some fixed probability.’

‘Deterministic sampling; packets are chosen periodically.’

‘Stratified sampling; the sampling process is divided into multiple steps. Packets are first divided into subsets, then sampling is applied within each subset.’

Growth of Traffic;

‘Throughout its history, claims have been frequently made that internet traffic growth has been ‘exponential’.’

Web;

‘The world wide web remains the single most popular application since the creation of the internet.’

Web Traffic, data gathering and analysis;

‘In order to examine properties on the web, measurements on a large scale have to be carried out about numerous websites from multiple locations.’

‘The sources of web Traffic data are at or near the entities involved in web transactions. Clients, proxies, servers, and intermediate points in the network are all places where data can be gathered.’