Workshop Dates: September 23 (Tuesday) - 26 (Friday) 2025
Place: Room 408, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD Campus, La Jolla, CA
Workshop Overview
The second meeting in 2025, we continue 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-6 workshop will be to:
- Introduce ongoing efforts to integrate the GMI3S infrastructure with national AI resources, and the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for data annotation and metadata generation
- Conduct hands-on tutorials, including sessions on CAIDA’s Archipelago (Ark) measurement infrastructure, scamper, and the UCSD Network Telescope.
Topics are anything related to Internet measurement.
The GMI-AIMS-6 workshop is by invite only.
Agenda
The workshop will begin at 9:00am PST every day unless noted otherwise.
Tuesday, September 23: Hackathon Day
| Activity | Set Time | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 8:15am | |
| Orientation (meet at SDSC Room 408) | 9:00am | |
| Goals of meeting, orientation, introductions | All attendees | |
| Tutorial on active measurement | 9:20am | |
| Best practices, lessons learned from others using it | Matthew Luckie (UCSD/CAIDA) | |
| Hack | 10:00am | |
| Working lunch (Sandwiches, Salad, Snacks) | ||
| Hike | 4:30pm | |
| Dinner | 6:00pm |
Wednesday, September 24: Active Measurement Day
| Activity | Set Time | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 8:15am | |
| Talks | 9:00am | |
| Identifying Segment Routing with MPLS as Forwarding Plane | Florian Dekinder (University of Liege) | |
| Replication | Jarrett Huddleston | |
| QUIC in Scamper | Nikolas Gauder (TU Munich) | |
| TBD | Mattijs Jonker (U Twente) | |
| ROOTBEER: Routing Operations Observational Technology: Building to Enable Education and Research | Steven Wallace (Internet2), Matthew Luckie (CAIDA/UCSD) | |
| Lunch | 12:45pm | |
| Hackathon Readouts | 3:00pm | |
| Dinner | 6:00pm |
Thursday, September 25: Active Measurement (AM); Network Telescope (PM)
| Activity | Set Time | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast on your own | ||
| Round Table Talks | 9:00am | |
| What I learned from workshop | All attendees | |
| Speed Test Measurements | Ricky Mok (UCSD/CAIDA) | |
| Active Perf Measurement on DREN | Phil Dykstra (DREN) | |
| AS2Org with LLMs | Esteban Carisimo (Northwestern U) | |
| Hackathon Readouts | ||
| Lunch Breakouts | 12:00pm | |
| Breakout reports/Open discussion: what new primitive we need for ark joining with new data sets | 1:00pm | All attendees |
| Telescope | 2:30pm | Ricky Mok (UCSD/CAIDA) |
| TBD | Alexander Maennel (TU Dresden) | |
| Dinner | 6:00pm |
Friday, September 26: Telescope Day
| Activity | Set Time | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast on your own | ||
| Late start | 10:30am | |
| Telescope Tutorial | 10:30am | Ricky Mok (UCSD/CAIDA) |
| Lunch | 12:45pm | |
| Talks | 1:00pm | |
| What I’m trying to do, what I’ve tried so far | Eric Kapitanski (USC) | |
| Benchmarking Darknet Analysis | Max Gao (UCSD/CAIDA) | |
| IPv6 telescope plans (https://www.caida.org/funding/cns-ivoyager/) | Ricky Mok (UCSD/CAIDA) | |
| Workshop summary, next steps | kc claffy (UCSD/CAIDA) | |
| Adjourn | 4:00pm |
Recommended Reading List
A sample recommended reading list is below. A full reading list is available for registered participants on the shared document.
- Paper: An Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment
- Doc: Scamper Python module documentation
- Blog: Towards a Domain Specific Language for Internet Active Measurement
- Blog: Developing active Internet measurement software locally to run on Ark
- Blog: CAIDA’s 2024 Annual Report
Limited Travel Support
Travel support grants are available for full-time students registered for the workshop in the form of travel (airfare) reimbursement. Travel Grant recipients are required to participate in the Hackathon. Preference will be given to those presenting at the meeting.
To apply and compete for a travel grant, the student applicant should email the following to with the subject “AIMS-18 Travel Grant request”:
- The applying student’s curriculum vitae (CV)
- An application letter which should include:
- A brief summary of the student research interests and accomplishments to date
- A statement about why the AIMS attendance is important to the student
- An estimate of the costs of attending AIMS: airfare only. Participants cover local commuting and meals on their own, though meals will be provided during the event. It is anticipated that travel grants will partially cover these costs of attendance.
- A statement of whether the student has registered for the meeting and proposed to present a paper, etc. in the registration form.
- A recommendation letter from the advisor of the student applicant is also required. The letter should provide the following:
- A confirmation that the student is a bona fide Ph.D. candidate or a M.Sc./B.Sc. student in good academic standing at the given institution.
- An indication about how the student applicant would benefit from attending AIMS.
- A statement of financial commitment to pay the remainder of the student applicants’ travel cost not covered by the grant.
The advisor’s letter should be emailed to
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.
This workshop is being held in the SDSC 408 (San Diego Supercomputer Center main building, 4th floor).
Directions to SDSC 408 Arrive from Hopkins Drive past the construction, walk up the outdoor staircase into the East Entrance.
Walk up another set of stairs inside that leads to a hallway. Walk down that hallway past a machine room. You’ll enter into the Main/Central building lobby, where there will be an elevator. Take it to the 4th floor.
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 and the high price of parking for the day. 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). Visitor Parking permits are currently $36 per day. 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.