A live network AS-level traffic characterization
Quentin Grandemange, Olivier Ferveur, Marion Gilson, Eric Gnaedinger · 2017 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) · 2017
The exponential growth of Internet traffic over the last twenty years presents a real challenge to ISP looking to ensure a reliable and efficient service to their customers. Network traffic is far from being straightforward to predict and a deep understanding of the routing domains is a first requirement to achieve proper management of the traffic. This paper focuses on the monitoring and characterization of traffic for a European Tier-2 operator (Post Luxembourg). It aims to provide a thorough analysis of the traffic passing through the network using a Netflow collection process. To this end, a new characterization based on AS-level network traffic behavior is proposed and analyzed.