Interception of P2P Traffic in a Campus Network
Nowadays, many universities face bandwidth saturation problem caused by several origins. These include youtube abusively use, online games and especially illegal downloading that makes havoc to Peer-toPeer protocol e.g. BitTorrent. The latter is often associated with data piracy and copyright viola...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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ICI Publishing House
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Revista Română de Informatică și Automatică |
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| Online Access: | https://rria.ici.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2_article_Mehdi.pdf |
| Summary: | Nowadays, many universities face bandwidth saturation problem caused by several origins. These
include youtube abusively use, online games and especially illegal downloading that makes havoc to Peer-toPeer protocol e.g. BitTorrent. The latter is often associated with data piracy and copyright violation. This
article aims at presenting on one hand the impact of the use of Peer-to-Peer file sharing traffic on campus
bandwidth by observation of BitTorrent traffic and on the other a method for limiting the illicit access to this
kind of networks. For this purpose, we used a set of open source tools like wireshak sniffer software to
capture Bitorrent traffic. Additionally, using the well-known Snort intrusion detection system with a number
of adequate and new rules one can reduce bandwidth saturation problem. This solution allowed in our case, a
bandwidth saturation reduction of 35%. |
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| ISSN: | 1220-1758 1841-4303 |