Enhanced BitTorrent Traffic Prediction Using the Kalman Filter

Abstract

Supervising internet traffic is essential for any Internet Service Provider (ISP) to dynamically allocate bandwidth in an optimized manner. BitTorrent is a well-known peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol for bulky file transfer. Its extensive bandwidth consumption affects the Quality of Service (QoS) and causes latency to other applications. There is a strong requirement to predict the BitTorrent traffic to improve the QoS. In this paper, we propose a Kalman filter (KF) based method to predict the network traffic for various traffic data sets. The observed performance of KF is superior in terms of both Mean Squared Error (MSE) and total computation time, when compared to Auto Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) model.