Internet usage at elementary, middle and high schools: a first look at K-12 traffic from two us Georgia counties

摘要: Earlier Internet traffic analysis studies have focused on enterprises [1,6], backbone networks [2,3], universities [5,7], or residential [4]. However, much less is known about usage in the K-12 educational system (elementary, middle and high schools). In this paper, we present a first of network captured at two districts US state Georgia, also comparing with similar traces collected our university (Georgia Tech). An interesting point that one counties has limited access capacity it congested during most workday. Further, both are heavily firewalled, using port-based content-based filters. The paper focuses host activity, utilization trends, user application mix, flow characteristics communication dispersion these networks.