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

世界正在采用社交距离，在家工作和在家学习来限制COVID-19的传播，直到早期发现和COVID-19疫苗的可用性。这些政策的实施在美国各地和全球因当地情况而异。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种转变，从而观察对COVID的早期反应，并希望在未来观察到这种转变。该项目计划通过测量地址活动及其相对于历史趋势的变化，开发两种评估互联网使用的互补方法。该项目将基于对400多万个IPv4网络的持续测量，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提供商互连的区域互联网交换点直接测量网络流量中互联网地址的使用情况。第一种方法提供了全球情况，而第二种方法提供了更详细但区域性的情况;它们将有助于评估测量准确性。该项目可以通过使用互联网来捕捉世界不同地区对COVID-19的反应的改进全球情况。特别是，从这项研究的结果将有助于了解网络的变化行为相比，历史数据，并提供一种新的方法，基于地址的使用来描述人们如何留在家里，并寻找有效性和发病在家工作和庇护所在原地.该项目的网站将在https://ant.isi.edu/minceq.该项目将在https://ant.isi.edu/datasets上免费向研究人员提供该项目产生的所有新数据。该项目网站和数据将无限期存在;截至2020年，该网站已经提供了五年的档案数据，作为基线。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.