Abstract
Earlier Internet traffic analysis studies have focused on enterprises [1,6], backbone networks [2,3], universities [5,7], or residential traffic [4]. However, much less is known about Internet usage in the K-12 educational system (elementary, middle and high schools). In this paper, we present a first analysis of network traffic captured at two K-12 districts in the US state of Georgia, also comparing with similar traces collected at our university (Georgia Tech). An interesting point is that one of the two K-12 counties has limited Internet access capacity and it is congested during most of the workday. Further, both K-12 networks are heavily firewalled, using both port-based and content-based filters. The paper focuses on the host activity, utilization trends, user activity, application mix, flow characteristics and communication dispersion in these two K-12 networks.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Aiello, W., Kalmanek, C., McDaniel, P., Sen, S., Spatscheck, O., Van der Merwe, J.: Analysis of communities of interest in data networks. In: Passive and Active Network Measurement (2005)
Fomenkov, M., Keys, K., Moore, D., Claffy, K.: Longitudinal study of Internet traffic in 1998-2003. In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (2004)
Fraleigh, C., Moon, S., Lyles, B.: Packet-level traffic measurements from the Sprint IP backbone. IEEE Network (2003)
Fukuda, K., Cho, K., Esaki, H.: The impact of residential broadband traffic on Japanese ISP backbones. In: ACM SIGCOMM (2005)
Karagiannis, T., Broido, A., Faloutsos, M., Claffy, K.C.: Transport layer identification of P2P traffic. In: ACM SIGCOMM (2004)
Pang, R., Allman, M., Bennett, M., Lee, J., Paxson, V., Tierney, B.: A first look at modern enterprise traffic. In: Internet Measurement Conference (2005)
Smith, F.D., Campos, F.H., Jeffay, K., Ott, D.: What TCP/IP protocol headers can tell us about the web. In: ACM SIGMETRICS (2001)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Miller, R., Matthews, W., Dovrolis, C. (2010). Internet Usage at Elementary, Middle and High Schools: A First Look at K-12 Traffic from Two US Georgia Counties. In: Krishnamurthy, A., Plattner, B. (eds) Passive and Active Measurement. PAM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6032. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12334-4_16
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12334-4_16
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-12333-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-12334-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)