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Internet Traffic Management

Prafull Suryawanshi
Roll No - 04IT6008

Overview

Basic Concept of Traffic


Need of Traffic Management
Measuring Traffic
Traffic Control and Management
Quality and Pricing Issues
Conclusion

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What is traffic?

Density of Data
Request / Response / Control
Load
Queue
Delay

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Why Worry about Traffic?

Widely used network


Different types of network
Service Quality
Dynamic nature of traffic
Complex nature of traffic data

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Measuring Internet Traffic


First Step
Reasons for Motivation of
measurement

Making sure things keep working


More capacity need
Billing data
Understanding to improve network

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What can we measure?


Network Hardware
Support SNMP and implement MIB
Limited functionality
Specialized Method or Tools
Requires specialized hardware
Allow to measure more detail view of
traffic
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What can we measure?


MIB may provide
Count of packet or bytes
Amount of data
The tools allows
Link Behaviour
Routing Topology
Traffic Flows
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Approaches in
Measurement

Active Measurement
Injection of Probes
Ping and Trace route
Path connectivity
Round-trip delay

User-Application Performance
Loss
Delay
Throughput
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Approaches in
Measurement

Passive Measurement
Packet Monitors
Packet Header
Unique Protocol

Router and Switch Traffic Statistics


Packet Drops
Counts
Flow Statistics

Server and Router Log


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Measuring Tools
Local Systems
NETSTAT
TCPDUMP

Remote System
MIB
IF-MIB

Router
NETFLOW

Sniffers
RMON
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Analyzing Traffic (Use of Traffic


Data)
Performance Metrics
Packet Loss
Delay
Throughput
Availability

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Traffic Control and Management


Types of traffic control
Macroscopic
Route topology
Use of BGP
Filters

Microscopic
Control at point of forwarding
Examine payload
Firewall
Intrusion Detection System
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Example : Web Servers Traffic


Mgmt.
Huge number of requests
Server Farm
Load Balancer
Internet Uses Global Load
Balancing

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QoS and Pricing Issues


Internet Data
Text
Audio
Video

Impact on SLA

Traffic Variations
Flow and Sessions
Streaming and Elastic Flow
Variable Rate of Traffic Streams

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Conclusio
n
Even if complex nature of Internet
data, using efficient measuring
method we can gather required data
to analyze the traffic. Implementing
appropriate control mechanisms we
can avoid traffic in Internet.
Mechanisms depend upon nature of
traffic.
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Thank You !

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