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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doaj-963bee8665de4028b240c76043fc73d82020-11-24T21:32:49ZengICI Publishing HouseRevista Română de Informatică și Automatică1220-17581841-43032019-06-01292213410.33436/v29i2y201902Interception of P2P Traffic in a Campus NetworkMerouane MEHDI0Electronics Department, University Blida, AlgeriaNowadays, 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%.https://rria.ici.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2_article_Mehdi.pdfIntranetP2P trafficBitTorrentµtorrentBandwidth |
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Interception of P2P Traffic in a Campus Network |
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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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Intranet P2P traffic BitTorrent µtorrent Bandwidth |
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