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Dates: February 8 (Mon) - 10 (Wed), 2010
Place: Auditorium B210E/B211E Meeting Room, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

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

Announcement

The 2nd Workshop on Active Internet Measurements supporting science and policy (AIMS-2) brings together participants from a wide range of areas including researchers, operators, and policymakers. The attendees will collaborate on cross-functional analysis of goals, means, and emerging issues in active Internet measurement projects.

The main objectives of the AIMS Workshops are to understand the potential and limitations of active measurements in the wide-area Internet, to identify relevant stakeholders and beneficiaries, to promote cooperative solutions, and to build a coordinated strategy addressing future data needs for the network and security research communities.

Program

The workshop includes 2.5 days of presentations, breakout sessions, and discussions. The second half of Day 3 is intended for drafting a report.

A tentative list of agenda items includes:

• reviewing priorities/objectives/plans of various active measurement infrastructures, especially aimed at macroscopic security, stability, and performance measurements
• coordination among measurement infrastructures
• approaches to sharing data from measurement infrastructures
• geolocation bakeoff -- designing an experiment to compare geolocation tools/services^{†
  †}If you're interested in testing particular aspects of these services please email us at geocompare-info@caida.org and we will send you a survey.

Mailing List

Please join the AIMS-2 2010 workshop mailing list for updates, announcements, discussion of the workshop, etc.

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Workshop Agenda

February 8 (Monday)

• 08:00 - 09:00 breakfast


• 09:00 - 09:45 Introductions
  
  
  • Agenda review and revisions
  • Start list of questions we want to discuss/answer


• 9:45 - 12:30 Session I: Geolocation
  
  
  • Richard Barnes, IETF Standards for Geolocation and Emergency Calling
  • Bradley Huffaker, CAIDA's Geolocation Tool Comparison

  10:45 - 11:15 coffee break

  • Peter Haga, A Model Based Approach for Improving Router Geolocation
  • Noa Zilberman, Geo-location of PoPs


• 12:30 - 14:00 working lunch
  
  
  Discussion questions:
  • What do you need out of geolocation tools?
  • Which ones are the best for those needs?
  • What annotations do you want to see on topology maps?


• 14:00 - 15:45 Session II: Topology Measurement and Mapping Techniques
  
  
  • Rob Beverly, Directed probing for efficient and accurate active measurements
  • Benoit Donnet, Internet Topology Discovery Through mrinfo Probing
  • Mehmet Engin Tozal, TraceNET: An Internet Topology Data Collector

  15:45 - 16:15 coffee break



• 16:15 - 18:00 Session III: Performance
  
  
  • Nick Feamster, Characterizing VLAN-induced sharing in a campus network
  • Renata Teixeira, Which Factors Affect Access Network Performance?
  • Fabian Bustamante, Internet-wide systems need Internet-wide measurement platforms
  • David Choffnes, EdgeScope: Exposing the View of the Edge of the Network


• 18:00 Reception dinner and demos

February 9 (Tuesday)

• 08:00 - 09:00 breakfast


• 09:00 - 10:30 Session IV: Infrastructure
  
  
  • Jordan Augé, Interconnecting the OneLab measurement infrastructures
  • Marsha Madyastha, iPlane Status
  • Ethan Katz-Bassett, Using Reverse Traceroute to Measure the Internet
  • Young Hyun, Ark update and measurement case study

  10:30 - 10:45 coffee break

• 10:45 - 12:30 Session V: Data Needs and Sharing Approaches
  
  
  • Craig Wills, Development of a User-Centered Network Measurement Platform
  • Julio Ibarra, AMPATH update
  • Matt Zekauskas, perfSONAR Overview
  • Robert Kisteleki, INRDB - the Internet Number Resource Database
  • Daniel Karrenberg, The Ripe NCC Network Measurement Data Repository


• 12:30 - 14:00 working lunch
  
  
  Discussion questions:
  • What data do researchers need but cannot obtain?
  • What data analysis do operators need?


• 14:00 - 18:00 Session VI: Topology Data Interpretation : Alias Resolution
  
  
  • Mehmet Engin Tozal, PalmTree: IP Alias Resolution Algorithm with Linear Probing Complexity
  • Young Hyun, Internet-scale Alias Resolution with MIDAR

  15:15 - 15:45 coffee break

  • Matthew Luckie, Inference of False Links in Traceroute Graphs
  • Bradley Huffaker, AS Assignment for Routers
  • Talha Oz, Subnet-level Internet mapping


• 18:00 Adjourn

dinner on your own; pizza will be provided for folks who want to stay for BOFs, demos, chat

February 10 (Wednesday)

• 08:00 - 9:00 breakfast


• 09:00 - 12:30 Session VII: Performance
  
  
  • Yuval Shavitt, A Measurement Study of the Origins of End-to-End Delay Variations
  • Yuji Sekiya, Gulliver Project - DNS active measurement
  • Partha Kanuparthy, DiffProbe: Detecting ISP Service Discrimination

  10:30 - 10:45 coffee break

  • Emile Aben, Measuring IPv6 deployment
  • Christos Papadopoulos, Correlating Spam Activity with IP Address Characteristics


• 12:30 - 14:00 working lunch


• 14:00 - 14:30 Workshop summary
  
  
  • kc claffy, Summarizing/synthesizing workshop content (with help from others)


• 14:30 - 17:00 Brainstorming and drafting the workshop report

  15:30 - 16:00 coffee break

• 17:00 Adjourn

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Local Arrangements / Getting to SDSC

For this workshop, attendees are expected to make their own hotel reservations and transportation arrangements from their hotels to the workshop. For CAIDA's list of recommended local hotels including shuttle availability, see the AIMS-2 2010 Hotels list (PDF). Contact the hotel directly for hotel shuttle schedules (if available) to the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).

The most convenient parking is in the Hopkins parking structure at Hopkins and Voight, just south of SDSC. Park on the lower level, exiting to the sidewalk along Hopkins Drive, walk north to the new SDSC building (on your left). Before you go up all the concrete stairs, the rooms for the conference will be on the left, labeled Auditorium or B210E/B211E Meeting Room. Be aware that there are now three wings of SDSC. This workshop is being held in the new east wing that faces Hopkins Drive. For questions and help, contact Darlene Piche at (858) 534-5109.

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 CAIDA offices in the 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, also labeled as B210E/B211E Meeting Room).

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.