CI-New: Collaborative Research: An Open Observatory for the Internet's Last Mile

从运营商到政策制定者的决策者需要对互联网连接进行准确、具有代表性、直观和可重复的测量。政策制定者依靠网速数据为监管和投资决策提供信息。人权活动人士从许多国家和互联网服务提供商那里监测互联网可达性状况，并广泛报告这些发现。应用程序提供商、Internet服务提供商和网络运营商都需要知道用户正在体验的性能，以便更好地调整他们的服务。这些决策者需要能够从典型用户的角度衡量Internet连接的基础设施。为了实现这一目标，该项目将开发一个基础设施，从有利位置收集可靠的、可重复的测量数据，以反映家庭互联网用户所经历的连接。除了提供有关互联网连接特征的宝贵数据外，该基础设施还将作为研究人员进行可重复实验的平台，并从家中收集互联网上的数据。通过开发可在商用家庭网关路由器上运行的软件，并允许研究人员安全地动态加载沙盒应用程序，该项目将为研究人员、运营商和决策者开发一个开放的网络测量观测站。该项目将BISMark和Wireless@Home测量项目的元素与西雅图测试平台结合起来，以便为研究人员提供在家庭网关上安装沙箱测量应用程序的能力。

Decision makers ranging from operators to policymakers need accurate, representative, intuitive, and repeatable measurements of Internet connectivity. Policymakers rely on data about Internet speeds to inform regulation and investment decisions. Human rights activists monitor the state of Internet reachability from a wide range of countries and Internet service providers and report broadly on those findings. Application providers, Internet service providers, and network operators all need to know the performance that a user is experiencing to allow them to better tune their services. These decision makers require an infrastructure that can measure Internet connectivity from the perspectives of typical users. Towards this goal, this project will develop an infrastructure to gather reliable, repeatable measurements from vantage points that reflect the connectivity experienced by home Internet users. In addition to yielding valuable data about characteristics of Internet connectivity, the infrastructure will also serve as a platform for researchers to perform repeatable experiments and gather data on the Internet as seen from the home. By developing software that will run on commercially available home gateway routers and which will allow researchers to securely dynamicly load sandboxed applications, this project will develop an open network measurement observatory for researchers, operators, and policymakers. The project will combine elements of the BISMark and Wireless@Home measurement projects with the Seattle testbed in order to provide researchers with the ability to install sandboxed measurement applications on the home gateway.