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Project Summary

Understanding the Internet’s changing character is impossible without realistic and representative datasets and measurement infrastructure that can support sustained longitudinal measurements as well as new experiments, and with resulting data available to scientific researchers. But there is a dearth of good data to support research, for several good reasons: complexity, scale, and cost of measurement instrumentation; information-hiding properties of the routing system, security and commercial sensitivities; costs of storing and processing the data; and lack of incentives to gather data in the first place. This lack of data hinders our ability to understand and reason about real-world properties of the Internet such as robustness, resilience, security, and stability.

CAIDA and NSRC propose to upgrade and integrate two of our measurement capabilities – 100GB traffic capture and BGP routing data collection – to enable a community of researchers across many institutions to collaborate on a high-level focused agenda.

We propose to enhance infrastructure to handle 100GB packet rates, and projected routing table growth, including deploying enhanced storage and compute resources to support long-term use of the data.

Our proposed approach integrates the community into the process from the beginning, to align the research goals and optimize NSF’s investment toward achievement of these goals. Our outreach coordination process will have five objectives: (1) shape what data we collect and store, (2) find new users of the infrastructure, especially from underrepresented groups, (3) bring our focus research collaborators together, (4) publish research results and analysis methods, and (5) establish a sustainability plan.

Projected Timeline

Task	Description	Projected Date	Organizations	Status
699 Traffic Data Infrastructure Enhancements
1.1	Build 100GB traffic monitor	Year 1	CAIDA	Done
1.2	Test and evaluate monitors	Year 2	CAIDA	Done
1.3	Deploy monitors	Year 2	CAIDA, DREN, Kentik	Done
1.4	Establish data enclave at CAIDA	Year 4	CAIDA
1.5	Manage and share traces	Year 3	CAIDA	Done
1.6	Augment with Kentik data sources	Year 4	CAIDA, Kentik
1.7	User training and support	Year 5	CAIDA
337 BGP Routing Data Infrastructure Enhancements
2.1	Enhance BGPStream service broker	Year 3	NSRC, CAIDA	Done
2.2	Interface to scamper at RouteViews	Year 2	CAIDA, NSRC, Waikato	Done
2.3	Scale up BGP data collection	ongoing	CAIDA, NSRC	ongoing
2.4	Upgrade libbgpstream	Year 4	CAIDA, NSRC	Done
2.5	Data integrity and quality controls	ongoing	CAIDA, NSRC	ongoing
2.6	Authentication	Year 3	CAIDA	Done
2.7	RouteViews infrastructure updates	ongoing	NSRC	ongoing
980 Outreach and Community Engagement
3.1	Catalog Management	ongoing	CAIDA	ongoing
3.2	Ongoing user support	ongoing	CAIDA	ongoing
3.3	Biannual newsletters	ongoing	CAIDA	ongoing
3.4	Biannual community meetings	ongoing	CAIDA	ongoing
3.5	Annual community workshops	ongoing	CAIDA	ongoing
3.6	Annual community surveys	ongoing	CAIDA	ongoing
3.7	Sustainability plan report	ongoing	CAIDA	ongoing

Collaborators

ILANDS involves substantial involvement of CISE researchers to advance our focused research agenda (listed alphabetically):

• Army Cyber Institute at West Point
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
• Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
• Colgate University
• Columbia University
• Freie Universitat Berlin
• HAW Hamburg
• Indiana University
• International Computer Science Institute (ICIR)
• Kentik
• Microsoft Research
• MIT/Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
• MIT/Lincoln Laboratory
• Princeton University
• Purdue University
• RIPE NCC
• UC Davis
• Universidad de Buenos Aires
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
• University of Minnesota
• University of Oregon/Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)
• University of Waikato
• USC/ISI

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Acknowledgment of awarding agency’s support

This material is based on research sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant CNS-2120399. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of NSF.