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Kirill Levchenko, Amogh Dhamdhere, Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson. PacketLab: A Universal Measurement Endpoint Interface. ACM Internet Measurement Conference, November 2017.
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Abstract:
The right vantage point is critical to the success of any active
measurement. However, most research groups cannot afford to
design, deploy, and maintain their own network of measurement
endpoints, and thus rely measurement infrastructure shared by
others. Unfortunately, the mechanism by which we share access to
measurement endpoints today is not frictionless; indeed, issues
of compatibility, trust, and a lack of incentives get in the way
of efficiently sharing measurement infrastructure.
We propose PacketLab, a universal measurement endpoint interface
that lowers the barriers faced by experimenters and measurement
endpoint operators. PacketLab is built on two key ideas: It
moves the measurement logic out of the endpoint to a separate
experiment control server, making each endpoint a lightweight
packet source/sink. At the same time, it provides a way to
delegate access to measurement endpoints while retaining
fine-grained control over how one's endpoints are used by
others, allowing research groups to share measurement
infrastructure with each other with little overhead. By making
the endpoint interface simple, we also make it easier to deploy
measurement endpoints on any device anywhere, for any period of
time the owner chooses. We offer PacketLab as a candidate
measurement interface that can accommodate the research
community's demand for future global-scale Internet
measurement.
BibTeX:
@inproceedings{LDH+17,
author = "Kirill Levchenko and Amogh Dhamdhere and Bradley Huffaker and kc claffy and Mark Allman and Vern Paxson",
title = "{PacketLab: A Universal Measurement Endpoint Interface}",
booktitle = "ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference",
year = 2017,
month = Nov,
}
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