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Dates: February 12 (Thu) - 13 (Fri), 2009
Place: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

For information on Local Arrangements / Getting to SDSC, see the bottom of this document.

Announcement

The Workshop on Active Internet Measurements supporting science and policy (AIMS) involved participants from a wide range of areas including researchers, operators, and policymakers. The high-level program collaborated on cross-functional analysis of goals, means, and emerging issues in active Internet measurement projects.

The main objectives of the ISMA AIMS Workshop were to understand the potential and limitations of active measurements in the wide area Internet, to identify relevant stakeholders and beneficiaries, to promote synergistic solutions, and to build a coordinated strategy to address the future data needs.

Program

The workshop consisted of two days of presentations with significant time to be designated for group interaction among participants. Topics of specific interest included:

• priorities/objectives/plans of various active measurement infrastructures
• clarifying academic, commercial, and government needs for active measurement data
• data sharing issues
• possible improvements in coordination of measurements across different (academic and non-academic) active measurement infrastructures

Workshop Agenda

February 12 (Thursday)

• 8:00a - 8:45a Breakfast


• 8:45a Workshop Introduction
  
  
  • kc claffy, Workshop Welcome, Objectives, and Logistics (15 min)
    
    
• 9:00a - 12:00p Active Measurement Projects and Infrastructure
  
  
  • Krishna Gummadi, Glasnost: Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic (30 min)
  • Guillaume Valadon, Internet measurements at complexnetworks.fr (30 min)
  • Peter Haga, Monitoring and Measurement in the Next generation Networks (30 min)

    coffee break

  • Timur Friedman, The TopHat Measurement Infrastructure (30 min)
  • Young Hyun, Archipelago update and analyses (30 min)
  • Matthew Luckie, Scamper
  • John Heidemann, USC/LANDER Passive and Active Data Collection
  
  


• 12:00p - 2:30p Breakout Sessions I
  
  
  • Operations: Operational considerations in building/maintaining active measurement infrastructure (Leader: Young Hyun)
  • Research: Integration of active measurements with other data sources (Leader: Dan Massey)

  12:30p working lunch

• 2:30p - 3:00p Presentations by leaders of Breakout I groups, discussion
  
  
• 3:00p - 5:30p Active measurements for security applications
  
  
  • Nick Feamster, Dynamics of Online Scam Hosting Infrastructure (30 min)

  coffee break

  • Arvind Krishnamurthy, Studying Spamming Botnets using Botlab (30 min)
  • Ethan Katz-Basset, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Spoof (30 min)
  • Robert Beverly, Debated Data: the evolution of IP source spoofing filtering, policy and attacks (30 min)
  
  
• 5:30p - 7:30p Reception

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February 13 (Friday)

• 8:30a - 9:00a Breakfast


• 9:00a - 12:00p Analysis of active measurement data
  
  
  • Yuval Shavitt, Quantifying the Bias of Distributed Internet Topology measurements (30 min)
  • Renata Teixeira, Network Tomography for Fault Diagnosis (30 min)

  coffee break

  • Ann Cox, LTS efforts in network mapping (30 min)
  • Ken Keys, IP-to-router mapping techniques and results (30 min)
  
  
• 12:00p - 2:30p Breakout Sessions II
  
  
  • Operations: Coordination across different measurement infrastructures
  • Research: Data sharing across infrastructures

  12:30p working lunch

• 2:30p - 3:00p Presentations by the leaders of Breakout II groups, discussion


• 3:00p - 3:30p Policy Discussion
  
  
  • John Heidemann and Christos Papadopoulos, Towards Best Practices for Active Network Measurement

  coffee break

• 3:30p - 4:30p Round Table Discussion: open questions, conclusions, and workshop recommendations


• 4:30p - 4:45p Action items


• 5:00p Adjourn

Local Arrangements / Getting to SDSC

For this workshop, attendees are expected to make their own arrangements from their hotels to the workshop. For CAIDA's list of recommended local hotels including shuttle availability, see the AIMS 2009 Hotels list (PDF). Contact the hotel directly for details on hotel shuttle service schedules to the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

For this workshop, it is best to park in the Hopkins parking structure on Hopkins Drive, just south of SDSC. Park on the lower level and walk north to the new SDSC building (on your left). Before you go up the stairs, the auditorium where the conference will be held in will be on the left, Meeting Room B212E. Be aware that there are two wings of SDSC. This workshop is being held in the new east wing that faces Hopkins Drive.

UCSD Maps and general UCSD Visitor Parking information is additionally available. General driving directions to SDSC are located on the CAIDA Contact and Visitor Info page (note these directions refer you to the main SDSC building, not the SDSC East wing where the workshop will be held. They are adjacent and connected. To find the East Wing Auditorium from the main SDSC building, go straight through the lobby into the East Wing, and head outside and down the stairs - the auditorium will be on your right, Room B212E).

Sponsors

Funding for this event is provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, the National Science Foundation (NSF), CAIDA sponsors, and by the San Diego Supercomputer Center.