CI-New: Collaborative Research: An Open Platform for Internet Routing Experiments

数据在互联网上从源到目的地的路径是用户体验服务质量的关键决定因素。通过路由来控制路径，路由受到流量工程和策略的影响。因此，路由问题--不稳定、故障、迂回路径--对性能有着至关重要的影响。尽管存在这些问题，研究人员和网络运营商很难研究互联网路由。可用的Vantage位置几乎无法看到网络如何互连，因此难以评估现有路径的弹性和性能。除了这种有限的可见性之外，研究人员还缺乏试验替代路径的手段。本项目开发的基础设施将使研究人员和网络运营商能够观察互联网路径，并试验替代路由方法。该基础设施由两个协同工具组成：Transit Portal允许实验者进行影响当前路由的路由公告，Reverse Traceroute允许实验者测量产生的路径。PI已经使用了基础设施的早期版本来改善Internet性能、可靠性和诊断。该项目开放了网络社区和教室使用的基础设施，为理解和改进互联网提供了基础。关键组件是：1）增加Transit Portal站点的数量; 2）增加对Transit Portal实验的支持，将完全仿真的网络连接到实际的互联网; 3）升级和强化反向Traceroute代码，以便更广泛的社区可以使用; 4）通过更有效地调度和重用测量来改进实验工作流程。

The path that data takes across the Internet from its source to its destination is a critical determiner of the service quality that a user experiences. The path is controlled via routing, which is influenced by traffic engineering and policy. Therefore, routing problems--instability, failures, circuitous paths--have a critical impact on performance. Despite these issues, researchers and network operators have difficulty studying Internet routing. Available vantage points provide little visibility into how the networks interconnect, making it difficult to assess the resilience and performance of existing paths. On top of this limited visibility, researchers lack means to experiment with alternate paths.The infrastructure developed by this project will allow researchers and network operators to observe Internet paths and to experiment with alternate approaches to routing. The infrastructure consists of two synergistic tools: Transit Portal allows an experimenter to make route announcements that influence current routing, and Reverse Traceroute allows the experimenter to measure the resulting paths. The PIs have used early versions of the infrastructure to improve Internet performance, reliability, and diagnosis. The project opens the infrastructure to use by the networking community and in classrooms, providing a basis for understanding and improving the Internet. The key components are 1) increasing the number of Transit Portal sites; 2) adding support for Transit Portal experiments that join fully emulated networks to the actual Internet; 3) upgrading and hardening the Reverse Traceroute code so that it is useable by the broader community; and 4) improving experiment workflow by scheduling and reusing measurements more efficiently.