A flow-based performance analysis of TCP and TCP applications

Author

Lei Qian ; Carpenter, Brian E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

45

Abstract

The most widely used transport layer protocol, TCP, consistently contributes the largest traffic volume in the Internet. The objective of this study is to determine whether there are long-term trends in TCP flows and popular TCP applications from over several years in different organizations. The results show that TCP flows´ average packet size has increased steadily and each TCP flow contains slightly more packets year by year. HTTP packets have shorter Round Trip Time (RTT) than HTTPS packets. We also observed that over 60% of TCP flows have very short average packet length. Most TCP flows have reasonably short lifetimes.

Keywords

Internet; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; HTTP packet; Internet; RTT; TCP flows; average packet size; flow-based performance analysis; packet length; round trip time; traffic volume; transport layer protocol; Computers; Educational institutions; Internet; Market research; Ports (Computers); Protocols; Systematics; TCP; TCP applications; long-term impacts;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks (ICON), 2012 18th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1556-6463

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4521-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2012.6506531

Filename

6506531