The Network Packets Data Set

Paul Murrell


Table of Contents

Introduction
Variables
Data format

Introduction

The data are measurements made on each packet of information that passes through the University of Auckland Internet Gateway. These measurement include a timestamp that represents the time at which the packet reached the network location, and the size of the packet, as a number of bytes. The data set described herein is provided in a space-delimited ASCII text file format. This is a very small sample of just 46 packets.

Variables

Name: timestamp

Type: integer (min: 0)

Description: The time at which the packet arrived at the Internet Gateway, as a number of seconds since January 1st 1970.

Name: size

Type: integer (min: 0)

Description: The size of the packet, in bytes.

Data format

The data set is provided as a space-delimited ASCII text file called packetSample.txt.

A larger file, containing packets from a single minute of network traffic is also available (7MB).

The file NetPacketsMeta.xml provides a StatDataML description of the data set.