Bandwidth Management Using IP Traffic Analysis: A Case Study of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria

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dc.contributor.authorAdewale, Adedokun Emmanuel
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-28T09:15:26Z
dc.date.available2014-02-28T09:15:26Z
dc.date.issued2009-02
dc.descriptionA 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 ENGINEERINGen_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2956
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectBandwidth,en_US
dc.subjectManagement,en_US
dc.subjectUsing,en_US
dc.subjectIP Traffic,en_US
dc.subjectAnalysis,en_US
dc.subjectCase study,en_US
dc.subjectAhmadu Bello University,en_US
dc.subjectZariaen_US
dc.titleBandwidth Management Using IP Traffic Analysis: A Case Study of the Ahmadu Bello University Zariaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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