RAPID: Measuring the Internet during Novel Coronavirus to Evaluate Quarantine (RAPID-MINSEQ)

世界正在利用社交距离、在家工作和在家学习来限制新冠肺炎的传播，直到获得新冠肺炎的早期检测和疫苗。由于当地情况的不同，这些政策的实施在美国和全球各地都有所不同。一个常见的后果是互联网使用的巨大转变，大学宿舍和高中空无一人，家庭使用量增加。该项目的目标是通过互联网地址使用的变化，在全球范围内观察这一变化，从而能够观察对COVID的早期反应，并希望观察未来的变化。该项目计划开发两种互补的方法，通过测量地址活动和它如何相对于历史趋势变化来评估互联网使用。该项目将基于对400多万个IPv4网络的连续、持续测量，直接测量全球互联网地址的使用情况。该项目还将在多个互联网供应商互联的区域互联网交换点直接测量互联网地址在网络流量中的使用情况。第一种方法提供了一幅全球图，而第二种方法提供了更详细但具有区域性的图；这两种方法结合在一起将有助于评估测量精度。该项目允许通过使用互联网来捕捉世界不同地区对新冠肺炎的反应的更好的全球图。特别是，这项研究的结果将有助于了解与历史数据相比网络行为的变化，并提供一种基于地址使用的新方法来表征人们如何呆在家里，并寻找在家工作和就地工作的有效性和起始点。该项目的网站将在https://ant.isi.edu/minceq.该项目将使该项目产生的所有新数据免费提供给https://ant.isi.edu/datasets.的研究人员该项目的网站和数据将无限期存在；截至2020年，该网站已经提供了作为基线的五年档案数据。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The world is employing social distancing, work-from-home, and study-from-home to limit COVID-19's spread until the availability of early detection and a vaccine for COVID-19. Implementation of these policies varies across the U.S. and globally due to local circumstances. A common consequence is a huge shift in Internet use, with university dormitories and high schools emptying and home use increasing. The goal of this project is to observe this shift, globally, through changes in Internet address usage, allowing observation of early reactions to COVID and, one hopes, a future shift back.This project plans to develop two complementary methods of assessing Internet use by measuring address activity and how it changes relative to historical trends. The project will directly measure Internet address use globally based on continuous, ongoing measurements of more than 4 million IPv4 networks. The project will also directly measure Internet address use in network traffic at a regional Internet exchange point where multiple Internet providers interconnect. The first approach provides a global picture, while the second provides a more detailed but regional picture; together they will help evaluate measurement accuracy.This project allows to capture an improved global picture of how different parts of the world react to COVID-19, as seen through their use of the Internet. In particular, the results from this research will help understand changing behavior of networks compared to historical data, and provide a new method based on address usage to characterize how people are staying home, and to look for the effectiveness and onset of work-from-home and shelter-in-place.The project website will be at https://ant.isi.edu/minceq. The project will make all new data generated by this project available at no cost to researchers at https://ant.isi.edu/datasets. The project website and data will persist indefinitely; as of 2020 the website already provides five years of archival data that serves as a baseline.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.