GMI-AIMS-5

February 8-14 (2025), we invite GMI project collaborators to a workshop at the San Diego Supercomputer Center to discuss the future steps of the GMI project.

For more information about the GMI project, see the GMI3S website and GMI3S funding page.

Hackathon Dates: February 8 (Saturday) - 9 (Sunday) 2025
Workshop Dates: February 10 (Monday) - 14 (Friday) 2025
Place: Auditorium, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD Campus, La Jolla, CA

Workshop Overview

In 2025 we will return to our in-person community AIMS workshops to allow researchers and operators to exchange ideas and progress on measurement infrastructure systems, methods, datasets, and insights. The purpose of GMI-AIMS-5 workshop will be to:

Integrate the design phase outcomes with the proposed implementation plan, ensuring alignment with the project’s goals and objectives
Discuss the deployment of a new global measurement platform, data management and accessibility infrastructure, analytics infrastructure, and community engagement/training workshops
Explore the integration of the GMI3S infrastructure with national AI resources, and the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for data annotation and metadata generation
Finalize the plans for community engagement, work force training, and STEM education, including the development of a Network Infrastructure Data Science course and video tutorials

Topics are anything related to Internet measurement.

The GMI-AIMS-5 workshop is by invite only.

Hackathon and project suggestions

We are hosting a hackathon the weekend before GMI-AIMS-5 (Feb 8 and 9), focused on team coding challenges that leverage the new scamper libraries, and the Ark infrastructure. We encourage you to submit potential challenges with some level of detail (for some great examples, see projects from our earlier BGP Hackathon).

If there is sufficient interest, we will also host hands-on training tracks on Thurs and Friday 13-14 Feb, focused on the UCSD Network Telescope.

To submit challenges for the hackathons, please suggest project ideas on the Hackathon Project Suggestions form

The hackathon will be chaired by:

Matthew Luckie (CAIDA/UC San Diego)
kc claffy (CAIDA/UC San Diego)

For details about the hackathon, more will be posted in January.

Register

Registration for GMI-AIMS-5 is open from now until we reach capacity or until January 31st, whichever comes first. Register for GMI-AIMS-5 and be invited to the Mattermost channel to receive up-to-the-minute updates.

Agenda

Harkathon will be on Saturday and Sunday before the workshop. The GMI-AIMS-5 workshop itself will begin on Monday at 9am. The workshop will begin at 9:00am PST every day.

Note: Up-to-the-minute agenda updates will be posted on the shared document and the private Mattermost channel for registered participants only. The agenda below is presented as a sample for those interested in registering.

February 8 (Saturday)

9:00a: Breakfast, introductions
9:20a: Overview of Infrastructure and Hackathon Challenges
9:20a-10:00a Tutorial on active measurement, best practices, lessons learned from others using it
- paper: An Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment
10:00a-4:30p Hack, break for lunch
4:30p-6:00p Hike
7pm Dinner

February 9 (Sunday)

9:00a-4:00p Hack, break for lunch
4:00p-6:00p Hike

February 10 (Monday): Active Measurement Day

8:00a-9:00a Arrival: zoom setup, breakfast, instructions
Review of Hackathon Results
Active Measurement Infrastructure Update
- Ark software update
- RIPE Atlas
- Measurement Lab
- Internet2/ESnet Perfsonar
Lightning talks in the afternoon
- Ark/active measurement at IXPs
- Anycast Convergence
- Speedtest: RABBITS
- LEO measurement
- IPv6 hitlist
- NTP Fingerprinting
- PathFinder

February 11 (Tuesday): BGP Day

What I learned yesterday
Infrastructure Updates
- RIPE RIS
- RouteViews
- PEERING Testbed
- GILLNet
- Rotonda
Tutorials
- Internet Yellow Pages
- Internet Health Report
Research Updates
- IP Leasing

February 12 (Wednesday): DNS and TLS Day

What I learned yesterday
Infrastructure Updates
- Open Intel
- Streaming DNS Data
- Infrastructure for compiling/analyzing blacklist
- DNS Transparency
Research updates
- Phishing characteristics
- Other phishing talks
- TLS experiments
- TLS talks

February 13 (Thursday): Telescope Day

What I learned yesterday
Infrastructure Updates
- STARNOVA
- Available dashboards
Research updates
- Scanning characterization
- Telescope event detection
- Mobile Network Analysis
- Comparing Clouds
Hands-on: Telescope training tracks
- Working with telescope data
- Guided hands-on experience with telescope data
  - Ricky Mok (CAIDA/UC San Diego)
  - Max Gao (CAIDA/UC San Diego)
  - Alex Maennel (TU Dresden)
  - Brendon Jones (CAIDA/UC San Diego)

February 14 (Friday): Data Analytics Day

Data Analytics Infrastructure
- FANTAIL
- BGP2Go
- RV PeerStats
- AS Rank
- OSDF
- Concentration
Data Analytics Research
Hands-on: Telescope training tracks
- Working with telescope data

Local Arrangements / Getting to UC San Diego

For this workshop, attendees are expected to make their own hotel reservations and transportation arrangements from their hotels to the workshop. If you are willing to share a room with others, there will be a Mattermost channel discussing room sharing of AirBnB/VRBOs among other attendees.

This workshop is being held in the SDSC East Auditorium (Room B210E/B211E) that faces Hopkins Drive.
(For those GPS-enabled attendees, the GPS coordinates near the SDSC Auditorium is WGS84: 32°53'03.77"N, 117°14'20.31"W)

Check the following websites for direction to SDSC:

Taxis, Rideshare, and drop-off: San Diego Taxi Information maintains a list of taxis with rates and additional information. Uber and Lyft are also well established in San Diego and now have access to service San Diego’s airport. Set your destination to “9836 Hopkins Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093”

Shuttle: Shuttle service between San Diego airport, your hotel, and UCSD can be requested from SuperShuttle San Diego SAN Airport (Cloud 9 Shuttle). Yellow Cab of San Diego. Please consult their websites to find the current fares and conditions. Complimentary shuttle service from hotel to UCSD/SDSC is also available from certain La Jolla hotels.

Trolley and Bus: Lower cost alternatives to UCSD are available via the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) buses and the trolley. Consult the Online Transit Information System Trip Planner for customized route options. Please be advised that the punctuality of the buses cannot be guaranteed due to lateness and delays. The nearest trolley station is the UCSD Central Campus Station on the Blue Line Trolley. In both the case of trolley and bus, a short 15-20 minute walk is required to reach SDSC. Consult trolley map and schedules and bus map and schedules for general details.

Driving onto campus: Driving your car onto campus is not recommended because of the scarcity of visitor parking spaces. If you do drive in by car, the most convenient parking is in the Hopkins parking structure at Hopkins Dr and Voigt Dr, just south of SDSC.

Parking Permits: Parking permits are required to park on UC San Diego Campus. Parking legally is the attendee’s responsibility. With a permit purchased on the ParkMobile app (Zone 4752) or a kiosk-purchased parking permit, you can park in any White “ V ” Visitor spaces only, unless otherwise indicated. Visitor Parking is limited, especially if arriving after 8am (if Hopkins is full, Pangea Parking Structure is the nearest parking alternative within walking distance to SDSC). The penalty for an improperly parked car is at least $80 per day. We cannot be held responsible for citations issued for parking in an incorrect space or improperly purchased permit, and the appeal process is very time consuming. UCSD Transportation and Parking Services has information about on-campus parking.

For transportation concerns, general questions and help before the workshop, ask in the Mattermost channel.

Additional Content

Registration: GMI-AIMS-5

Registration form for GMI-AIMS-5 workshop.