CI-EN: Internet Laboratory for Empirical Network Science: Next Phase (iLENS-NP)

互联网的优势在于它是网络提供商的联盟，而不是单一的基础设施。 然而，这种联合限制了网络配置和操作的可见性，并对网络行为和拓扑建模、设计协议和/或新架构以及研究鲁棒性、弹性和经济性等现实世界属性的研究和开发工作的能力产生负面影响。基于边缘的测量和分析技术的应用是克服这些限制的关键。安全测量平台Archipelago（Ark）支持全球互联网的大规模主动测量研究。自 2007 年以来，Archipelago 收集了大量网络拓扑数据，用于广泛的科学研究。 Ark 是一个独特的实验室，研究人员可以在其中快速设计、实施并轻松协调全球分布的一组专用监视器上的实验执行。该项目将增强方舟的能力和数据产品，以支持网络研究，为许多现实世界互联网现象的研究、网络建模和映射的理论和实践工作提供实证基础；对互联网历史演变的纵向研究，并对未来潜在的网络架构进行评估。该项目包括四项基础设施开发任务：（i）部署新的硬件架构，扩大基础设施的规模和可管理性，（ii）集成最新的测量技术进步，以实现全新的科学实验和数据集，（iii）将按需测量网络界面的功能升级到方舟平台，以及（iv）创建用于浏览、查询和可视化所收集数据的新界面。

A strength of the Internet is that it is a federation of network providers instead of a monolithic infrastructure. However, this federation limits visibility into network configuration and operations and negatively impacts the capability of research and development efforts to model network behavior and topology, design protocols and/or new architectures, and study real-world properties such as robustness, resilience, and economics. The application of edge-based measurement and analysis techniques is key to overcoming these limitations. The secure measurement platform, Archipelago (Ark) supports large-scale active measurement studies of the global Internet. Since 2007 Archipelago has gathered a large set of network topology data which used for a broad spectrum of scientific research. Ark is a unique laboratory in which researchers can quickly design, implement, and easily coordinate the execution of experiments across a globally distributed set of dedicated monitors. This project will enhance Ark's capabilities and data products in order to support network research, providing empirical grounding for study of many real-world Internet phenomena, theoretical and practical efforts in network modeling and mapping; longitudinal studies of the Internet's historical evolution, and evaluation of potential future network architectures. The project consists of four infrastructure development tasks: (i) deploying a new hardware architecture that expands the scale and manageability of the infrastructure, (ii) integrating recent measurement technology advances to enable fundamentally new scientific experiments and data sets, (iii) upgrading the functionality of the measurement-on-demand web interface to the Ark platform, and (iv) creating a new interface for browsing, querying, and visualizing the data gathered.