Abstract
Traffic characterization is an important means for
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to adapt and to optimize
their networks to the requirements of the customers. Most
network measurements are performed in the backbone of
these ISPs, showing both, residential and business Internet
traffic. However, the traffic characteristics of business
and home users differ significantly. Therefore, we have performed
measurements of home users at a broadband wireless
access service provider in order to reflect only home
user traffic characteristics.
In this paper, we present the results of these measurements,
showing daily traffic fluctuations, flow statistics as
well as application distributions. The results show a difference
to backbone traffic characteristics. Furthermore, we observed
a shift from web and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing
traffic to streaming applications.
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