A Study on Traffic Characteristics Evaluation for a Pure P2P Application

Author

Ohzahata, Satoshi ; Kawashima, Konosuke

Author_Institution

Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Tokyo

fYear

2008

fDate

13-15 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

483

Lastpage

490

Abstract

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications are widely used nowadays. In overlay networks, it is mainly music and video files that are transferred, and it is known that the traffic volume is much larger than that of classical client/server applications. However, the nature of current P2P application traffic is not well known because of the anonymous communication architectures used. To solve this problem, we have developed an identification method for pure P2P application traffic, especially for Winny, the most popular pure P2P file sharing application in Japan. Our method relies only on client/server relationships among the peers, without recourse to application header information. With using the method, we give an evaluation of the characteristics of the identified traffic collected in an ISP.

Keywords

client-server systems; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication traffic; P2P application traffic identification method; anonymous communication architectures; overlay networks; peer-to-peer file sharing applications; Agriculture; Cryptography; File servers; Internet; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Video sharing; Videoconference; P2P; measurement; traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2008. PDP 2008. 16th Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1066-6192

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3089-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDP.2008.59

Filename

4457161