Archipelago: A Coordination-Oriented Measurement Infrastructure

Young Hyun
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis - CAIDA
San Diego Supercomputer Center,
University of California, San Diego

Abstract:

CAIDA introduces Archipelago, our next generation active measurement infrastructure. The unusual design considers coordination the fundamental activity of a measurement infrastructure. Coordination allows the many pieces of the infrastructure to work together efficiently toward a common goal. Also, collaborative use of the infrastructure by multiple researchers requires coordination. Archipelago provides a coordination facility inspired by David Gelernter's tuple-space based Linda coordination language. Archipelago extends Gelernter's tuple space model with features needed to support a globally distributed measurement infrastructure that hosts heterogeneous measurements by a community of researchers.