Accounting and Measurement of Internet Traffic

General Sites

Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)

The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) is a collaborative undertaking to research and promote greater cooperation in the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure. CAIDA provides a neutral framework to support these cooperative endeavors.

Metering and accounting for Web services

In this article, the authors describe a generalized pricing model for commercial Web services that can be implemented by service providers for service requesters.

Keynote Internet performance review

Reviews of some Web sites wrt performance.

John Cushnie: PhD Research Resource Page

Collection of links to resources on accounting and billing.

Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis

Attempt to coordinate Internet architecting and management.

Netgraphs, etc.

Links to lots of Internet statistics.

New Ideas, Institutions, and Examples in Telecommunications Polic

Links to some papers that measure price and quantity trends for bandwidth in the 1990s.

John Quarterman's Internet Weather Report

Graphical picture of state of congestion on Internet.

"It's the Latency, Stupid"

Nice paper pointing out the difference between latency and bandwidth.

TCP Congestion Avoidance

This paper investigates an analytical performance model for the TCP Congestion Avoidance algorithm. (7/97)

IP Performance Metrics Working Group

List of drafts:

• Framework (7/97)
• Bulk Transfer (7/97)
• Delay (7/97)
• Loss (7/97)
• Connectivity (11/96)

Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB

A program developed by Nevil Brownlee for analyzing network traffic for accounting purposes. (1/97)

Cooperation in Internet Data Acquisition and Analysis

Summarizes state of art in Internet performance monitoring and workload characteristics, along with a model for a cooperative association for Internet data analysis. (9/96)

A Survey of Internet Statistics / Metrics Activities

Nice survey of current work on Internet use measurement, QoS measurement, etc. (6/96)

Towards a Framework for Defining Internet Performance Metrics

by Vern Paxson, LBL. Describes some views about how it should be done. (6/96)

Vern Paxson's thesis on "Measurements and Analysis of End-to-End Internet Dynamics".

Thesis about measuring and analyzing Internet traffic.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Internet Traffic Index

An index of papers by Hans-Werner Braun, Kim Claffy, and their collaborators concerning Internet traffic measurments available at the Center. (5/95)

AMADNS

A system under development (at 3/94) at Bellcore by Shoshi Loeb and Mike Kogut that will provide "network and service usage data transfer, processing and management capabilities."

Imeter

Imeter is a program that allows users to benchmark Internet Service Providers.

 

Papers and Research by Mike Schwartz at the University of Colorado

A Measurement Study of Internet File Transfer Traffic

A description of FTP traffic, which still makes up the bulk of Internet traffic. (1/92)

FTP caching

Remarks on how to improve the FTP system efficiency. (3/93)

Harvest Information Discovery and Access System.

 

An index of Schwartz's Papers.

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Accounting Request For Comments (RFCs)

RFC1346

An RFC discussing resource allocation, control and accounting in networks. (6/92)

RFC1272

An Internet "Request for Comment" that provides some background on Internet accounting issues. (11/91)

RFC1125

A description of some problems involved in connecting together various administrative domains. (11/89)