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

作为支撑当今许多商业、社会、政治和文化活动的事实上的全球信息基础设施，互联网现在提供了一种方便、快速(近乎即时的)，有时甚至是匿名的手段来连接和通信，更广泛地说，是与其他人建立“社会网络”，打破了地理、文化、社会经济和其他障碍。这些``社交网络？？另一方面，互联网及其组成的网络和服务基础设施--连接人类用户的基础“技术网络”、他们用于通信和信息访问的终端设备以及托管互联网服务的各种服务器--决定了信息和服务的获取和提供方式。因此，社会技术网络的相互作用和相互作用推动了互联网应用及其相关技术的创新、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势在必行。智力上的功绩。研究人员提出了网络流量活动图(TAG)的新概念，以捕捉网络流量的空间和时间动态，并发现和提取其中重要的通信模式和结构动态。研究人员使用标签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，解决了两个广泛的相互关联的问题：i)如何提取网络流量中固有的全网、空间和时间通信模式和其他结构动态，并使用它们来帮助揭示社会交互、社区结构和用户行为？以及二)如何有意义地分析和量化社会技术网络的相互作用和相互作用的影响，并说明它们如何更好地运营、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。这样的理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，其中许多服务太过未来主义，尚未被考虑。所有这些都将为用户、服务提供商和整个社会带来重大好处。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)以及与行业合作伙伴的合作，研究人员将寻求通过明确考虑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.