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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments imposed lock downs that forced hundreds of millions of citizens to stay at home. The implementation of confinement measures increased Internet traffic demands of residential users, in particular, for remote working, entertainment, commerce, and education, which, as a result, caused traffic shifts in the Internet core. In this paper, using data from a diverse set of vantage points (one ISP, three IXPs, and one metropolitan educational network), we examine the effect of these lockdowns on traffic shifts. We find that the traffic volume increased by 15-20% almost within a week--while overall still modest, this constitutes a large increase within this short time period. However, despite this surge, we observe that the Internet infrastructure is able to handle the new volume, as most traffic shifts occur outside of traditional peak hours. When looking directly at the traffic sources, it turns out that, while hypergiants still contribute a significant fraction of traffic, we see (1) a higher increase in traffic of non-hypergiants, and (2) traffic increases in applications that people use when at home, such as Web conferencing, VPN, and gaming. While many networks see increased traffic demands, in particular, those providing services to residential users, academic networks experience major overall decreases. Yet, in these networks, we can observe substantial increases when considering applications associated to remote working and lecturing.

인터넷 트래픽의 성격은 최근에 극적으로 변화했으며 특히 인터넷 트래픽에서 동영상 트래픽이 차지하는 비중이 크게 증가했다. 동영상 트래픽은 트래픽의 패턴을 전통적인 쌍방향 통신에서 일방향 콘텐츠 전송으로 변화시키기 때문에 현행 정액제 중심의 인터넷망 요금구조는 이를 수용하기에 적절하지 않을 수 있다. 이러한 문제가 발생하는 가장 큰 이유는 트래픽(비용발생의 주요동인)과 수입간의 불연속이 있기 때문이다. 트래픽은 급격하게 성장할 것이라고 다 예측하고 있지만 트래픽을 전송하는 망 제공자의 수입은 그만큼 증가할 것이라 예측하기 힘들다. 본 논문에서는 예상되는 트래픽 성장을 감당하고 현행 수익모델을 개선하기 위한 다양한 대안들을 검토한다. 구체적으로 가용 네트워크 용량을 보다 효율적으로 사용하고 인터넷 서비스의 제공에 있어 보다 큰 혁신을 촉발시키기 위한 유인제도와 가격신호를 반영하는 대안을 평가기준에 따라 검토하고 바람직한 망이용대가 산정방안을 제시한다. The characteristics of internet traffic was dramatically changed recently. Especially, the ratio of video traffic in internet network is highly increased. Because the video traffic changes the traditional interactive traffic transport into one way contents delivery, internet network pricing structure is not efficient to reflect this changes. The fundamental reason for these is the discontinuity between the cost and revenue of the internet traffic. Although the internet traffic is forecasted to grow highly, the revenue of network provider is not expected to increase as such. The present paper investigates various alternatives to improve the present business model and to accommodate traffic growth. Then, the desirable options is proposed to invoke the innovation and to reflect the price signal according to some criteria.

Molecular motors perform active movements along cytoskeletal filaments and drive the traffic of organelles and other cargo particles in cells. In contrast to the macroscopic traffic of cars, however, the traffic of molecular motors is characterized by a finite walking distance (or run length) after which a motor unbinds from the filament along which it moves. Unbound motors perform Brownian motion in the surrounding aqueous solution until they rebind to a filament. We use variants of driven lattice gas models to describe the interplay of their active movements, the unbound diffusion, and the binding/unbinding dynamics. If the motor concentration is large, motor-motor interactions become important and lead to a variety of cooperative traffic phenomena such as traffic jams on the filaments, boundary-induced phase transitions, and spontaneous symmetry breaking in systems with two species of motors. If the filament is surrounded by a large reservoir of motors, the jam length, i.e., the extension of the traffic jams is of the order of the walking distance. Much longer jams can be found in confined geometries such as tube-like compartments.

The growing size and sophistication of the worldwide Internet systems require effective techniques of real-time monitoring of abnormal network activity.The given paper presents an active network probing framework which repeatedly measures the quality of end-to-end Internet paths with lightweight ICMP and TCP-based measurement packets.The framework is dynamically tweaked to either shorten or lengthen its probing interval, based on the volatility of the network that it monitors, allowing it to distinguish between a benign congestion event and an anomaly caused by an attack, e.g. by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) amplification or route hijacking.The probes are spread on ten geographically different vantage points that offer coverage and a high level of temporal granularity.Information regarding the collected data is analysed with a hybrid statistical-machine learning model that matches traffic deviations on real-time.Experimental tests had 92% accuracy in anomaly detection using less than 1% bandwidth footprint, which means that it does not cause much interference to the traffic being carried out.Findings prove the scalability, flexibility and efficiency of the framework in improving the visibility of the performance of the global Internet.The study will help in the development of non-invasive, proactive, and distributed network monitoring systems to ensure service reliability and safety in the current communication infrastructures.

Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) are generally considered to be the successors of the four Network Access Points that were mandated as part of the decommissioning of the NSFNET in 1994/95 to facilitate the transition from the NSFNET to the "public Internet" as we know it today. While this popular view does not tell the whole story behind the early beginnings of IXPs, what is true is that since around 1994, the number of operational IXPs worldwide has grown to more than 300 (as of May 2013), with the largest IXPs handling daily traffic volumes comparable to those carried by the largest Tier-1 ISPs, but IXPs have never really attracted any attention from the networking research community. At first glance, this lack of interest seems understandable as IXPs have apparently little to do with current "hot" topic areas such as data centers and cloud services or software defined networking (SDN) and mobile communication. However, we argue in this article that, in fact, IXPs are all about data centers and cloud services and even SDN and mobile communication and should be of great interest to networking researchers interested in understanding the current and future Internet ecosystem. To this end, we survey the existing but largely unknown sources of publicly available information about IXPs to describe their basic technical and operational aspects and highlight the critical differences among the various IXPs in the different regions of the world, especially in Europe and North America. More importantly, we illustrate the important role that IXPs play in today's Internet ecosystem and discuss how IXP-driven innovation in Europe is shaping and redefining the Internet marketplace, not only in Europe but increasingly so around the world.

Complex traffic patterns lead to crucial campus Metro-E network management and resource allocation. This paper presents an internet traffic forecasting by pre-processing data to offer better bandwidth quality of service (QoS). Eight (8) campuses' traffic data were analysed for modelling predictions using statistical analysis. A Metro-E campus network presents four (4) locations: A, E, F, and H have is a strong correlation between inbound and outbound traffic, with correlation values between 0.4547 and 0.5204. As the inbound traffic increases, outbound traffic tends to rise as well. Conversely, locations B, C, and G have weak correlations, indicating more independent traffic patterns. Data outliers were found for locations C and F, where unusual traffic spikes require further network exploration and show key trends in traffic data. Descriptive statistics reveal notable differences, with H has the highest average traffic at about 75 Mbps, while C has the lowest at around 30 Mbps. Location F shows the greatest traffic fluctuation with a standard deviation of 0.4076, whereas Location G has very little fluctuation with a standard deviation of 0.0240. Overall, this pre process data is use to combine machine learning (ML) to improve prediction abilities for better bandwidth management and real-time handling in digital campus environments.

Physical-layer authentication is a popular alternative to the conventional key-based authentication for internet of things (IoT) devices due to their limited computational capacity and battery power. However, this approach has limitations due to poor robustness under channel fluctuations, reconciliation overhead, and no clear safeguard distance to ensure the secrecy of the generated authentication keys. In this regard, we propose a novel, secure, and lightweight continuous authentication scheme for IoT device authentication. Our scheme utilizes the inherent properties of the IoT devices' transmission model as its source for seed generation and device authentication. Specifically, our proposed scheme provides continuous authentication by checking the access time slots and spreading sequences of the IoT devices instead of repeatedly generating and verifying shared keys. Due to this, access to a coherent key is not required in our proposed scheme, resulting in the concealment of the seed information from attackers. Our proposed authentication scheme for IoT devices demonstrates improved performance compared to the benchmark schemes relying on physical channels. Our empirical results find a near threefold decrease in the misdetection rate of illegitimate devices and close to zero false alarm rate in various system settings with varied numbers of active devices up to 200 and signal-to-noise ratio from 0 dB to 25 dB. Our proposed authentication scheme also has a lower computational complexity of at least half the computational cost of the benchmark schemes based on support vector machine and binary hypothesis testing in our studies. This further corroborates the practicality of our scheme for IoT deployments.

We propose a new method of possible trend detection in the internet traffic by using sequential pattern analysis. The main steps of this method, such as the template pattern discovery in time-series data and pattern comparison and matching for sequential pattern analysis, are analyzed and the possible constraints and problems are pointed. Experimental data are depicted and future research subjects are described. Ill. 6, bibl. 9 (in English; summaries in English, Russian and Lithuanian).

Adaptive-Cruise Control (ACC) automatically accelerates or decelerates a vehicle to maintain a selected time gap, to reach a desired velocity, or to prevent a rear-end collision. To this end, the ACC sensors detect and track the vehicle ahead for measuring the actual distance and speed difference. Together with the own velocity, these input variables are exactly the same as in car-following models. The focus of this contribution is: What will be the impact of a spreading of ACC systems on the traffic dynamics? Do automated driving strategies have the potential to improve the capacity and stability of traffic flow or will they necessarily increase the heterogeneity and instability? How does the result depend on the ACC equipment level? We discuss microscopic modeling aspects for human and automated (ACC) driving. By means of microscopic traffic simulations, we study how a variable percentage of ACC-equipped vehicles influences the stability of traffic flow, the maximum flow under free traffic conditions until traffic breaks down, and the dynamic capacity of congested traffic. Furthermore, we compare different percentages of ACC with respect to travel times in a specific congestion scenario. Remarkably, we find that already a small amount of ACC equipped cars and, hence, a marginally increased free and dynamic capacity, leads to a drastic reduction of traffic congestion.

We suggest a universal phenomenological description for the collective access patterns in the Internet traffic dynamics both at local and wide area network levels that takes into account erratic fluctuations imposed by cooperative user behaviour. Our description is based on the superstatistical approach and leads to the q -exponential inter-session time and session size distributions that are also in perfect agreement with empirical observations. The validity of the proposed description is confirmed explicitly by the analysis of complete 10-day traffic traces from the WIDE backbone link and from the local campus area network downlink from the Internet Service Provider. Remarkably, the same functional forms have been observed in the historic access patterns from single WWW servers. The suggested approach effectively accounts for the complex interplay of both “calm” and “bursty” user access patterns within a single-model setting. It also provides average sojourn time estimates with reasonable accuracy, as indicated by the queuing system performance simulation, this way largely overcoming the failure of Poisson modelling of the Internet traffic dynamics.