BU/NSF Workshop on Internet Measurement, Instrumentation and Characterization held on August 30, 1999 at Boston University

由于其规模、范围和复杂性的增长，以及其在社会中日益重要的作用，互联网已成为研究和评估的重要对象。近年来，网络社区的许多重大创新都是为了更准确地理解互联网这个复杂系统的基本行为。这些创新以更好的系统组件模型、更好的工具的形式出现，这些工具使我们能够更准确地测量系统的性能，以及与性能评估相结合的新技术，这些新技术已经交付了更好的系统利用率。我们对互联网属性的理解的持续发展和改进对于指导硬件、协议和应用程序的设计者在下一个十年的互联网增长是必不可少的。作为一个研究团体，重要的下一步是对这一领域面临的挑战进行内省。这需要对迄今为止所取得的进展进行评估，对尚未解决的挑战和互联网将在不久的将来呈现给我们的挑战进行评估，并讨论该领域的创新者目前正在开发的有前途的新技术。为此目的，波士顿大学网络研究小组提议于1999年8月30日星期一在波士顿大学举行一次为期一天的讲习班，讨论这一议程，并将在SIGCOMM '99之前举行。BU/NSF互联网测量、仪器和表征（IMIC）研讨会将分为四个部分：(1)建模和表征；(2)互联网仪器与测量；(3)端到端协议和服务；(4)下一代互联网应用的网络支持。每次会议将包括3个报告，然后是一个公开讨论。讲习班最后将由学术界和工业界的研究人员以及资助机构的代表组成一个小组，他们将讨论未来的机遇和挑战以及将要采取的行动。研讨会的会议记录将作为NSF报告在网上发布。

Because of its growth in size, scope, and complexity --- as well as its increasingly central role in society --- the Internet has become an important object of study and evaluation. Many significant innovations in the networking community in recent years have been directed at obtaining a more accurate understanding of the fundamental behavior of the complex system that is the Internet. These innovations have come in the form of better models of components of the system, better tools which enable us to measure the performance of the system more accurately, and new techniques coupled with performance evaluation which have delivered better system utilization. The continued development and improvement of our understanding of the properties of the Internet is essential to guide designers of hardware, protocols, and applications for the next decade of Internet growth. As a research community, an important next step would involve an introspective look at the challenges that lie ahead in this area. This would entail an assessment of the progress that has been made to date, an evaluation of both the unsolved challenges and the challenges that the Internet will present us with in the near future, and a discussion of the promising new techniques that innovators in the field are currently developing. To this end, the Networking Research Group at Boston University propose a one-day workshop with this agenda to be held at Boston University on Monday, August 30, 1999 and which will immediately precede SIGCOMM '99. The BU/NSF Internet Measurement, Instrumentation and Characterization(IMIC) workshop will feature four sessions: (1) Modeling and Characterization; (2) Internet Instrumentation and Measurement; (3) End-to-End Protocols and Services; (4) Network Support for Next Generation Internet Applications. Each session will consist of 3 presentations to be followed by an open discussion. The workshop will conclude with a panel of researchers from academia and industry, as well as representatives from funding agencies, who will discuss opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, and initiatives to be undertaken. Proceedings of the workshop will be made available on-line as an NSF report.