Analysis of HTTP and HTTPS Usage on the University Internet Backbone Links
Shwan Dyllan, Hichem Dahimene, Phillip Wright, Perry Xiao · Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information · 2014
We present our latest study on monitoring and analysing the behavior of the LSBU (London South Bank University) data network traffic. The analysis of the network activity allows us to understand the network traffic characteristic, on a continuous basis, which identifying the data traffic patterns on the gateways (JANET via Kings College & via Imperial College) and identify and highlight the end-to-end performance of the network path. In this paper, the PRTG network monitoring tool (Paessler AG, Germany) has been chosen as this provides the capabilities of SNMP, port utilisation as well as sFlow. The objectives of the study are to point out the impact of the LSBU network performance and its congestions current state and predict the future data network traffic and congestions; to identify the venerability of the network, due to high usage in particular time of the day; and to check the capacity usage of the current resources to maximise performance and network utilization.