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

📄 Project 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...