



k. claffy, G. Polyzos, and H. Braun, "Traffic characteristics of
the T1 NSFNET backbone", in IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
(INFOCOM), Jan 1993, vol. 2, pp. 885--893.
Traffic characteristics of the T1 NSFNET backbone
This paper presents the results of a measurement study of the T1 NSFNET backbone. We first discuss the measurement environment and approach to data collection. We then present measurements results for: long-term growth in traffic volume, including attribution to domains and protocols; trend in average packet size on the network, both over long and medium term intervals; most popular sources, destinations, and site pairs; traffic locality; international distribution of traffic; mean utilization statistics, both of the overall backbone as well as of specific links of interest; and delay statistics.
Keywords: measurement methodology, passive data analysis