On the Analysis of IP Traffic Distribution in the Network of Suranaree University of Technology

This paper presents the IP traffic analysis. The traffic was collected from the network of Suranaree University of Technology using the software based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). In particular, we analyze the distribution of the aggregated traffic during the hours of peak load and light load. The traffic profiles including the parameters described the traffic distributions were derived. From the statistical analysis applying three different methods, including the Kolmogorov Smirnov test, Anderson Darling test, and Chi-Squared test, we found that the IP traffic distribution is a non-normal distribution and the distributions during the peak load and the light load are different. The experimental study and analysis show high uncertainty of the IP traffic.

Authors:

• Paramet Nualmuenwai
• Chutima Prommak

Keywords:

• IP traffic analysis
• IP traffic distribution
• Traffic uncertainty

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