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Identifying P2P traffic: A survey

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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic is widely used for the purpose of streaming media, file-sharing, instant messaging, games, software etc., which often involves copyrighted data. From the past decade, P2P traffic has been contributing to major portion of Internet traffic which is still rising and hence is consuming a lot of network traffic bandwidth. It also worsens congestion of network traffic significantly and degrades the performance of traditional client–server applications. Popularity of various P2P applications has led Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to face various challenges regarding efficiently and fairly utilizing network resources. The traditional methods of identifying P2P traffic such as port-based and payload-based are proving ineffective due to their significant limitations and can be bypassed. Hence, new approaches based on statistics or behaviour of network traffic needs to be developed and adopted in order to accurately identify existing and new P2P traffic which emerge over the time. This article presents a survey regarding various strategies involved in identifying P2P traffic. Furthermore, conceptual analysis of network traffic measurement and monitoring is also presented.

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Bhatia, M., Rai, M.K. Identifying P2P traffic: A survey. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 10, 1182–1203 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-016-0471-2

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