Identifying file-sharing P2P traffic based on traffic characteristics

This article focuses on identifying file-sharing peer-to-peer （P2P） （such as BitTorrent （BT）） traffic at the borders of a stub network. By analyzing protocols and traffic of applications, it is found that file-sharing P2P traffic of a single user differs greatly from traditional and other P2P （such as QQ） applications＇ traffic in the distribution of involved remote hosts and remote ports. Therefore, a method based on discreteness of remote hosts （RHD） and discreteness of remote ports （RPD） is proposed to identify BT-like traffic. This method only relies on flow information of each user host in a stub network, and no packet payload needs to be monitored. At intervals, instant RHD for concurrent transmission control protocol and user datagram protocol flows for each host are calculated respectively through grouping flows by the stub network that the remote host of each flow belongs to. On given conditions, instant RPD are calculated through grouping flows by the remote port to amend instant RHD. Whether a host has been using a BT-like application or not can be deduced from instant RHD or average RHD for a period of time. The proposed method based on traffic characteristics is more suitable for identifying protean file-sharing P2P traffic than content-based methods Experimental results show that this method is effective with high accuracy.

Measuring web page complexity by analyzing TCP flows and HTTP headers

To understand website complexity deeply, a web page complexity measurement system is developed. The system measures the complexity of a web page at two levels： transport-level and content-level, using a packet trace-based approach rather than server or client logs. Packet traces surpass others in the amount of information contained. Quantitative analyses show that different categories of web pages have different complexity characteristics. Experimental results show that a news web page usually loads much more elements at more accessing levels from much more web servers within diverse administrative domains over much more concurrent transmission control protocol （TCP） flows. About more than half of education pages each only involve a few logical servers, where most of elements of a web page are fetched only from one or two logical servers. The number of content types for web game traffic after login is usually least. The system can help web page designers to design more efficient web pages, and help researchers or Internet users to know communication details.