NeTSE: Small: Spatio-Temporal Network Traffic Dynamics and Interactions of Social-Technical Networks

互联网作为事实上的全球信息基础设施，支撑着当今的许多商业、社会、政治和文化活动，它现在提供了一种方便、快速（几乎即时）、有时匿名的手段来与其他人联系和沟通，更广泛地说，是与其他人建立“社交网络”，打破了地理、文化、社会经济和其他障碍。这些"社交网络？反映人类用户的社会互动、行为和兴趣，并影响访问哪些信息和使用哪些服务。另一方面，互联网及其组成网络和服务基础设施-连接人类用户、他们用于通信和获取信息的终端设备以及托管互联网服务的各种服务器的基础"技术网络“-决定了如何获取和提供信息和服务。因此，社会技术网络的相互作用和互动推动了互联网应用程序和使其成为可能的技术的创新、采用和传播。随着研究界考虑对未来互联网架构进行“干净状态”的重新设计，因此理解和解释这种相互作用和相互作用既重要又必要。智力优势。本研究项目通过网络流量探索和研究社会技术网络的相互作用和相互作用。电信网络存在以承载和递送由各种应用和服务生成的业务，以实现用户之间的通信、信息访问和共享以及社交交互。因此，网络流量及其时空动态隐含地反映了用户行为、社会社区和新兴趋势。研究人员提出了网络流量活动图（TAG）的新概念，以捕获空间和时间的流量动态，并发现和提取其中重要的通信模式和结构动态。研究人员使用TAG作为主要工具来研究社会技术网络的相互作用和相互作用，通过解决两大组相互关联的问题：i）如何提取网络范围内的空间和时间通信模式以及网络流量中固有的其他结构动态，并使用它们来帮助揭示社会互动，社区结构和用户行为？以及ii）如何有意义地分析和量化社会技术网络的相互作用和互动的影响，并对其进行说明，以更好地运营，管理，保护和发展（技术）网络及其上运行的服务？ 更广泛的影响。了解社会技术网络的相互作用和相互作用将有助于改善当今IP网络以及新兴服务的运营、管理和安全性。这种了解还将为未来网络的设计提供宝贵的见解，以便更好地满足新的互联网服务的需求和要求，其中许多服务过于超前，尚未考虑到。所有这些都将为用户、服务提供者和整个社会带来巨大的好处。该研究项目还将为本科生和研究生提供学习大规模数据分析和网络设计的实践经验。研究人员将积极让本科生，特别是女学生和代表性不足的少数民族参与研究项目。研究人员计划通过出版物和外联活动传播研究成果。通过参与未来的互联网设计论坛（例如，NetSE/GENI）以及与工业合作伙伴的合作，研究人员将寻求通过明确说明社会技术网络的相互作用和相互作用来影响未来互联网技术和服务的发展。

As the de facto global information infrastructure that underpins much of today's commercial, social, political and cultural activities, the Internet now provides a convenient, speedy (near instant), and sometimes anonymous means to connect and communicate, and more broadly speaking, to ``social-network'' with other people, breaking the geographical, cultural, socio-economic, and other barriers. These ``social networks?? reflect the social interactions, behaviors and interests of human users, and influence what information is accessed and what services are used. On the other hand, the Internet and its constituent network and service infrastructures -- the underlying ``technical networks'' which connect human users, the end devices they use for communications and information access, and various servers hosting Internet services -- determine how information and services are accessed and delivered. Hence, the interplay and interactions of the socio-technical networks drive innovation, adoption and spread of both Internet applications and the technologies that enable them. As the research community contemplates ``clean-state'' re-designs of a future Internet architecture, it is therefore both important and imperative to understand and account for such interplay and interactions. Intellectual Merit. This research project explores and studies the interplay and interactions of socio-technical networks through network traffic. Telecommunications networks exist to carry and deliver traffic generated by various applications and services to enable communications, information access and sharing, and social interactions among users. Hence network traffic and its spatial and temporal dynamics implicitly reflect user behaviors, social communities, and emergent trends. The researchers advance the novel notion of network traffic activity graphs (TAGs) to capture the spatial and temporal traffic dynamics, and to uncover and extract significant communication patters and structural dynamics therein. The researchers employ TAGs as a main tool to study the interplay and interactions of socio-technical networks by addressing two broad sets of inter-related questions: i) how to extract network-wide, spatial and temporal communication patterns and other structural dynamics inherent in network traffic, and use them to help reveal the social interactions, community structures and user behaviors? and ii) how to meaningfully analyze and quantify the effects of the interplay and interactions of socio-technical networks, and account for them to better operate, manage, secure and evolve the (technical) networks and the services running on top of them? Broader Impact. Understanding the interplay and interactions of socio-technical networks will help improve the operations, management and security of today's IP networks as well as emerging services. Such understanding will also provide valuable insight to the design of future networks, so as to better meet the demands and requirements of new Internet services, many of which are too futuristic to have yet been contemplated. All these will bring significant benefits to users, service providers and the society at large. The research project will also provide both undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on experiences in learning large-scale data analytics and network designs. The researchers will actively involve undergraduate students -- especially female students and underrepresented minorities -- in the research project. The researchers plan to disseminate the research outcomes through publications and outreach activities. Through participation in future Internet design forums (e.g., NetSE/GENI) and collaboration with industrial partners, the researchers will seek to impact the development of future Internet technologies and services by explicitly accounting for the interplay and interactions of socio-technical networks.