Investigating Network Testbed Usage

网络测试平台使计算机科学的评估实践发生了革命性的变化。在过去的十年里，世界各地建立了许多不同的测试平台，并且建造更快、更大、更多样化的测试平台的趋势仍在继续。另一方面，还没有关于试验床使用的研究。具体地说，谁使用试验床，用于什么类型的研究，以及使用模式和实践是什么。回答这些问题将有助于试验床建设者和资助者了解他们工作的影响，并引导他们的努力使回报最大化。该项目旨在分析有关试验床的现有数据，并收集新的数据，以了解试验床是如何使用的，由谁使用，目的是什么。它试图分析一段时间内的使用情况，并推断和分析短期和长期趋势。它还试图了解是什么促使人们使用试验床，以及是什么阻碍了他们的使用。对于那些阻碍试验床的因素，它试图找出其根本原因，即它们是否源于特定的研究领域、特定的试验床实践，或者它们是否固有于网络试验床的性质。

Network testbeds have revolutionized evaluation practices in computer science.Over the last decade many diverse testbeds have been built throughout the world, and the trend of building faster, bigger, and more diverse testbeds continues. On the other hand, there have been no studies on testbed use. Specifically, who uses testbeds, for what types of research, and what are the use patterns and practices. Answering these question would help testbed builders and funders understand the impact of their work and direct their efforts to maximize the payoff.This project seeks to analyze existing data about testbeds, and collect new data, to understand how testbeds are used, by whom and for what purpose. It seeks to analyze usage over time and to infer and analyze short-term and long-term trends. It further seeks to understand what motivates people to use testbeds and what hinders their use. For those factors that hinder testbed it attempts to identify their underlying reason, namely if they stem from a specific research field, a specific testbed practice or if they are inherent in the nature of network testbeds.