document: A comparative analysis of web and peer-to-peer traffic Peer-to-Peer ( P2P ) applications continue to grow in popularity , and have reportedly overtaken Web applications as the single largest contributor to Internet traffic . Using traces collected from a large edge network , we conduct an extensive analysis of P2P traffic , compare P2P traffic with Web traffic , and discuss the implications of increased P2P traffic . In addition to studying the aggregate P2P traffic , we also analyze and compare the two main constituents of P2P traffic in our data , namely BitTorrent and Gnutella . The results presented in the paper may be used for generating synthetic workloads , gaining insights into the functioning of P2P applications , and developing network management strategies . For example , our results suggest that new models are necessary for Internet traffic . As a first step , we present flow-level distributional models for Web and P2P traffic that may be used in network simulation and emulation experiments .
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