RAPID: Coordination and Summarization of Studies of Cyberspace during COVID-19 Pandemic

该提案描述了一项任务，作为NSF对COVID-19大流行快速反应的一部分，特别是他们对网络基础设施如何应对流量激增以及不断变化和扩展的使用模式的问题的回应。拟议的工作旨在将一系列不同的、由个人资助的互联网和网络衡量工作的成果整合到一份综合报告中，该报告描述了互联网如何应对COVID-19大流行。该项目将促进工具和其他测量技术诀窍的共享，建立一个或多个研讨会来共享方法和中期结果，并开发一份报告，该报告集成了与测量pi协调的不同测量工作的输出。虽然关于互联网络状况的技术知识将由个别项目收集，但这种补充努力的技术价值在于协调和促进，这将有利于个别项目，并产生一份全面的报告。此外，这项工作将有助于提高效率和更好的结果，通过相互促进的想法。这项工作将协调各个网络测量项目所做的技术评估结果，从而全面了解2019冠状病毒病大流行期间的互联网性能状况。这样一份全面的报告将为政策制定者、消费者权益团体和普通公民提供最好的视角，让他们了解网络空间的组成部分在这段时间里是如何运作和发展的，以满足他们的需求，并为未来的规划提供帮助。这项工作的结果将在http://living-online.csail.mit.edu.This上公布，该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 proposal describes a task as part of the NSF's rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in particular, their response to the question of how the cyberinfrastructure is dealing with traffic surges, and changing and expanding patterns of use. The proposed work seeks to integrate the output of a set of diverse, individually funded Internet and network measurement efforts into a single comprehensive report that describes how the Internet responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. This project will facilitate sharing of tools and other measurement know-how, set up one or more workshops to share methodologies and interim results, and develop a report that integrates output of the different measurement efforts, in coordination with the measurement PIs.While the technical knowledge on the state of the Internet will be gathered by the individual projects, the technical merit of this complementary effort arises in the coordination and facilitation, which will benefit the individual projects, as well as in generating a comprehensive report. Furthermore, this work will contribute towards efficiency and better outcomes by cross-fertilizing ideas among them. This effort coordinates results from technical assessment done by individual network measurement projects and, as a result, will present a comprehensive understanding of the state of the Internet performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Such a comprehensive report will give policy makers, consumer advocacy groups, and ordinary citizens the best view of how the components of cyberspace have functioned and evolved during this time to meet their needs, and for future planning. The results from this effort will be made available at http://living-online.csail.mit.edu.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.