A five year perspective of traffic pattern evolution in a residential broadband access networkShow others and affiliations
2012 (English)In: 2012 Future Network and Mobile Summit, FutureNetw 2012, 2012, article id 6294194Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In this paper we describe a systematic study on long-term evolution of residential broadband Internet traffic covering 5 calendar years from June 2007 to May 2011. The traffic evolution is characterized both in the term of the total traffic volume, as well as the traffic volumes and shares for different application categories (file sharing, video streaming etc.), with the focus on comparing the traffic on the per IP user basis and among different broadband subscription groups. The results show that the average daily total traffic generated by each private end user increased only by about 33 % during the past 5 years. Further, the results show that the P2P file-sharing has been dominating the network total traffic, but the daily file-sharing traffic volume per end user largely remains the same. Also, the daily streaming-media traffic volume per end user has increased dramatically by over 500% during the studied period of time. In the meantime, the daily web-browsing traffic volume per end user has increased by about 300%. Finally, a further investigation among 4 different FTTH broadband subscription groups with 1, 10, 30, and 100 Mbit/s symmetric access speeds shows that the lower the access speed, the more diversified the end user traffic tend to be.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012. article id 6294194
Keywords [en]
file sharing, long term evolution, residential Internet traffic pattern, streaming media, Traffic monitoring, user behavior, Internet traffic patterns, User behaviors, Behavioral research, Distributed computer systems, Internet, Internet protocols, Long Term Evolution (LTE), Peer to peer networks, Video streaming, Wireless telecommunication systems
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-51735Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84867208207ISBN: 9781905824304 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-51735DiVA, id: diva2:1517153
Conference
2012 21st Future Network and Mobile Summit, FutureNetw 2012, 4 July 2012 through 6 July 2012, Berlin
2021-01-132021-01-132021-01-13Bibliographically approved