Bandwidth Management Using IP Traffic Analysis: A Case Study of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
Bandwidth Management Using IP Traffic Analysis: A Case Study of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
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2009-02
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Adewale, Adedokun Emmanuel
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Abstract
This research studied the Internet Protocol traffic on the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
network in order to develop a strategic Bandwidth Management model. This work used a
packet sniffer on the network for the investigation of different types of Internet Protocol
(IP) traffic in order to device a bandwidth management strategy that will be based on the
characteristics of the different types of protocols, their usage and the bandwidth consumed
by each of these protocols. It was found that more than 75% of the total IP traffic on the
university network are HTTP traffic while about 19% of the traffic were termed “other IP
protocol”. A closer look at the constituents of the HTTP traffic revealed that internet mail
sites like Yahoo, Google, MNS etc constitute not less that 50 % of the total HTTP traffic
while online socialising sites like YouTube, Facebook etc also constitute a very significant
amount of traffic on the network, other sites are Microsoft and various antivirus software
sites . Based on the analysis of the data collected, it is suggested that access to less relevant
sites to academic and research activities be restricted to off peak period (5pm -9am).It is
also suggested that FTP server and Microsoft update servers be deployed on the network
to ensure that software download and updates are restricted to local traffic. The official email
for the University should be accessed only during working hours while access to all
internet free mail sites are denied.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.Sc) DEGREE IN
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Keywords
Bandwidth,, Management,, Using,, IP Traffic,, Analysis,, Case study,, Ahmadu Bello University,, Zaria