CRI-II-NEW: Collaborative Research: Measurement Infrastructure for Home Networks

在过去十年中，互联网的使用增长了3.5倍以上，达到约16亿用户;其中约3亿是宽带用户。 不幸的是，尽管这种不断增长的渗透率和用户越来越依赖于宽带网络的关键或性能敏感的应用，无论是研究界还是行业都不太了解接入链路的性能，或者用户如何配置和使用家庭内的网络。 由于缺乏对当今家庭网络的可视性，几乎不可能了解用户在这些网络中遇到的问题，更不用说如何解决这些问题了。 提高我们对家庭网络的理解的关键第一步是从家庭收集数据。 为此，我们正在开发一个家庭网络测量基础设施，包括（1）部署在家庭中的定制路由器和（2）中央数据收集服务器。 我们正在部署跨家庭的测量基础设施，并收集主动和被动测量的语料库，这将更多地揭示家庭网络的性能和使用。 考虑到家庭网络设备的激增以及公众对接入网络性能的日益关注，我们希望我们部署的基础设施以及从该基础设施收集的数据将在提高我们对家庭网络使用方式及其性能的集体理解方面发挥重要作用。 我们将通过会议和期刊出版物，以及与研究人员，政策制定者和从业者的会谈和演讲来传播我们的成果。

Over the past decade, Internet usage has grown by more than 3.5 times,to about 1.6 billion users; about 300 million of these are broadbandsubscribers. Unfortunately, despite this growing penetration and users'increasing reliance on broadband networks for critical orperformance-sensitive applications, neither the research community norindustry knows much about the performance of access links, or how usersconfigure and use networks inside the home. The lack of visibility intotoday's home networks makes it nearly impossible to understand theproblems that users experience in these networks, let alone how to fixthem. A critical first step towards improving our understanding of homenetworks is gathering data from homes. Towards this end, we aredeveloping a home network measurement infrastructure consisting of (1)customized routers deployed in homes and (2) a central data collectionserver. We are deploying both the measurement infrastructure acrosshundreds of homes and collecting a corpus of active and passivemeasurements that will shed more light into home network performance anduse. Given the proliferation of network devices in the home and thegeneral public's growing attention to the performance of accessnetworks, we expect that the infrastructure that we deploy and the datathat we gather from this infrastructure will play in important role inimproving our collective understanding of how home networks are used andhow well they perform. We will disseminate our results throughconference and journal publications, as well as talks with andpresentations to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.