Traffic monitoring and analysis : 4th international workshop, TMA 2012, Vienna, Austria, March 12, 2012 : proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, TMA 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in March 2012. The thoroughly refereed 10 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on traffic analysis and characterization: new results and improved measurement techniques; measurement for QoS, security and service level agreements; and tools for network measurement and experimentation. Front Matter....Pages - Assessing the Real-World Dynamics of DNS....Pages 1-14 Uncovering the Big Players of the Web....Pages 15-28 Internet Access Traffic Measurement and Analysis....Pages 29-42 From ISP Address Announcement Patterns to Routing Scalability....Pages 43-47 I2P’s Usage Characterization....Pages 48-51 Experimental Assessment of BitTorrent Completion Time in Heterogeneous TCP/uTP Swarms....Pages 52-65 Steps towards the Extraction of Vehicular Mobility Patterns from 3G Signaling Data....Pages 66-80 Identifying Skype Nodes in the Network Exploiting Mutual Contacts....Pages 81-84 Padding and Fragmentation for Masking Packet Length Statistics....Pages 85-88 Real-Time Traffic Classification Based on Cosine Similarity Using Sub-application Vectors....Pages 89-92 Towards Efficient Flow Sampling Technique for Anomaly Detection....Pages 93-106 Detecting and Profiling TCP Connections Experiencing Abnormal Performance....Pages 107-120 Geographical Internet PoP Level Maps....Pages 121-124 Distributed Troubleshooting of Web Sessions Using Clustering....Pages 125-128 Using Metadata to Improve Experiment Reliability in Shared Environments....Pages 129-142 tsdb: A Compressed Database for Time Series....Pages 143-156 Flexible High Performance Traffic Generation on Commodity Multi–core Platforms....Pages 157-170 Improving Network Measurement Efficiency through Multiadaptive Sampling....Pages 171-174 Back Matter....Pages -