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ABSTRACT
This is a report for a Network Traffic Analysis system presenting the first three chapters with the introduction/background of the study, literature review of all existing systems and documents in line with the developed system and the methodology used. The last three chapters present the system design describing the functional and non-functional requirements, soft/hardware requirements and the conceptual design; system implementation describing the use of the system followed by the conclusions about the course of the project.
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Uganda Christian University is located 23 kilometres from Kampala, in Mukono town, on the the main road to Jinja. It is a private university, chartered and fully accredited by the President of the Republic of Uganda, through the Ministry of Higher Education and Sports, and the National Council for Higher Education.
UCU is owned by the Province of the Church of Uganda, and has campuses in Eastern, Western and Northern Uganda.
The University was born out of Bishop Tucker Theological College. The college was founded in 1913 in response to a growing need for pastors in the Church.
Uganda Christian University has all the necessities for an excellent education. It is recognised internationally and nationally. The Most Rev. Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of the Church of Uganda is Chancellor, and the Rt. Rev. Dr George Carey is our Patron.
Uganda Christian University has got departments that ensure the effective delivery of services to the University community. Under these departments there is the University Computing Services (UCS) that caters for the IT requirements to enable them perform their roles optimally.
UCS provides planning, procurement and implementation support for all the University's ICT resources. The department's overall goal is to ensure optimum use of the available ICT resources in supporting the attainment of the University's operations and hence its strategic objectives. The services offered by this department include: internet connection, local area networks, wide area networks and user support services.
Network Traffic Analysis is the inference of information from observation of traffic flow; for example analysis of the presence, absence, amount, direction and frequency of traffic.
Traffic flow is a sequence of packets sent from a particular source to a particular unicast, anycast or multicast destination that the sources desire to label as a flow.
A flow could consist of all packets in a specific transport connection or a media stream
1.2 Problem Statement
Due to many users of the network there would be a network overload during peak hours. This result into slow internet connection and taking a much longer time to access internet connections which affect the performance of the network. Detecting the network overload was being done manually when a client reported to the network administrator who would then terminate some connections manually to reduce on the traffic. This necessitated a tool to analyze the network traffic reporting the traffic statistics at all times.
1.3 OBJECTIVES
1.3.1 Main Objectives
To develop a prototype that could analyze traffic over the network and present statistics during peak hours.
1.3.2 Specific Objectives
To analyze the current system was being used to analyze network traffic over the network.
To design a prototype that could act to analyze traffic over the network.
To develop a system that would analyze all the packets and report the statistics of all packets transmitted over the network.
To validate and validate the system developed.
1.4 Significance
1.4.1 As an individual
Personally this project improved on my skills of analysis and also design because it enabled me to learn more practically which has shaped me for the tasks ahead and this project was also a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science of Uganda Christian University.
1.4.2 To the students
The importance of this project to the students of the University was that it enabled them to learn more about the traffic analysis system in relation to my project and this also broadened their knowledge and skills.
1.4.3 To the public
The system developed would help reduce the problem of network overload during peak hours and would show the administrators the statistics of all the traffic over the network reducing the chances of slow Internet connection.
The analyzing of the network performance will allow the network administrator to enhance the network performance more efficiently and much faster hence making the traffic condition much better.