EAGER: Internet Measurement Capability for FABRIC

该项目启动了互联网测量研究，作为FABRIC测试平台的科学驱动。该项目的技术部分侧重于研究将部署在FABRIC中的三种不同的互联网测量系统。这些系统是对当前测量框架的补充，并将利用FABRIC的独特功能，包括可编程性和人工智能/机器学习。研究人员可以定制、配置和启动这些系统，为他们的研究收集数据。该项目的组织部分侧重于与FABRIC团队协调，并向互联网测量社区推广，以提高人们对FABRIC的认识，并促进FABRIC在研究中的使用。该项目将研究、开发和部署基于主动探针的测量、分布式网络蜜罐测量和物理层度量被动测量的原型系统。此外，还将研究一种用于测量FABRIC内分布式应用程序流量的系统。这些系统将作为虚拟机映像开发，可以集成到FABRIC控制框架中，并由FABRIC控制框架灵活地管理。这项工作将解决的技术挑战包括调查和构建核心图像，与FABRIC中的专用系统集成（包括GPS，高速数据包捕获，路由器等），构建数据存储库以及与测试平台操作人员协调以确保安全策略合规性。该项目将扩展FABRIC的能力，支持互联网测量研究，旨在拓宽对互联网结构和行为的理解，并为下一代互联网系统和协议的设计和开发提供信息。该项目的外联部分将建立认识并促进社区参与FABRIC和互联网测量系统的开发。该项目还将影响本科生和研究生编制网络和数据科学方面的新教材。参与项目的学生将得到指导和培训。从这个项目中产生的所有软件和数据工件都将对社区开放。这些文件将包括FABRIC中部署的所有原型互联网测量系统的文档。软件、数据、文档和出版物将从http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/software_data.html无限期地提供，并且在https://fabric-testbed.net/.This的FABRIC测试平台网页上，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project initiates Internet Measurement Research as a science driver for the FABRIC testbed. The technical component of the project focuses on investigating three different Internet measurement systems that will be deployed in FABRIC. The systems are complementary to the current Measurement Framework and will utilize FABRIC's unique capabilities including programmability and artificial intelligence/machine learning. The systems can be customized, configured and launched by researchers to gather data for their studies. The organizational component of the project focuses on coordinating with the FABRIC team and outreach to the Internet measurement community to raise awareness and catalyze the use of FABRIC in research studies.The project will investigate, develop and deploy prototype systems for active probe-based measurement, distributed network honeypot measurement and passive measurement of physical layer metrics. A system for measuring traffic from distributed applications within FABRIC will also be investigated. These systems will be developed as virtual machine images that can be integrated into and managed flexibly by the FABRIC Control Framework. The technical challenges that will be addressed in this work include investigating and building the core images, integrating with specialized systems in FABRIC (including GPS, high-speed packet capture, routers, etc.), building data repositories and coordinating with testbed operations personnel to assure security policy compliance.The project will expand FABRIC’s capability to support Internet measurement research, which seeks to broaden understanding of Internet structure and behavior and inform the design and development of next generation Internet systems and protocols. The outreach component of this project will build awareness and facilitate community participation in FABRIC and development of Internet measurement systems. The project will also influence the development of new educational materials in networking and data science at the undergraduate and graduate level. The students who work on the projects will receive guidance and training. All software and data artifacts that emerge from this project will be available to the community. These will include documentation for all of the prototype Internet measurement systems that will be deployed in FABRIC. Software, data, documentation and publications will be available indefinitely from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/software_data.html, and on the FABRIC testbed web pages at https://fabric-testbed.net/.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.