RAPID: Interactive Internet Outages Visualization to Assess Disaster Recovery

RAPID：用于评估灾难恢复的交互式互联网中断可视化

• 批准号: 1806785
• 负责人: John Heidemann
• 金额: $ 19.89万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1806785&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Interactive; Internet; Outages; Visualization

Natural disasters such as hurricanes and blizzards cause economic and social disruption in the U.S. and globally. First responders need information about the extent of problems, citizens would like information about cities where friends and relatives live, and government planners and researchers would like to design stronger infrastructure. However, information about the location of problems and speed of recovery can be slow to emerge during a disaster, and often remains imprecise and incomplete days or even weeks afterwards. Internet outage measurements can be a sensor to measure the effects natural disasters. The principal investigator and his team have shown that Internet outages can be observed from a few central sites--their work on Trinocular has been peer reviewed and they have been collecting data twenty four hours a day, seven days a week for more than two years. Serious natural disasters often result in Internet outages, typically because of power or communication loss due to utility pole failure, flooding, or wire breakage; this correlation has been shown by several groups. While the team makes outage data available to researchers today, this data is currently inaccessible to lay-people and even scientists, since they cannot easily browse the data or drill down into regions of interest. This project makes Internet outage data accessible through a new, interactive website, with goals of directly assisting citizens, first responders, and scientists to understand the scope of disasters and their recovery. Second, this website and data is used to compare the team's outage data with two sources of "ground truth" outages from disasters. A primary source of ground truth will be the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) NORS (Network Outage Reporting System): these industry-reported outages are the data the U.S. Government uses today to assess the status of the U.S. telecommunications system. This work will build on ongoing collaboration with the FCC, in which the team provides the FCC with its outage data and works with them to compare it with the FCC's proprietary data. The team also expects to compare its data to public reports of utility outages. This work builds a better understanding of the relationship between detectable outages in the Internet and public utility outages. This understanding will result from making current data more accessible to researchers and the public, and through our comparisons of Trinocular to ground truth data sources. In addition, making existing outage data more accessible to other researchers. This work promotes a better and more timely understanding of the consequences of natural disasters and the speed of recovery.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.

飓风和暴风雪等自然灾害在美国和全球造成经济和社会破坏。急救人员需要有关问题程度的信息，公民希望有关朋友和亲戚居住的城市的信息，政府计划人员和研究人员希望设计更强大的基础设施。但是，有关问题的位置和恢复速度的信息可能会在灾难中出现缓慢，并且通常是不精确和不完整的几天甚至几周后。互联网中断测量可以是测量自然灾害影响的传感器。首席调查员和他的团队表明，可以从几个中央站点观察到互联网停电 - 他们在三眼室的工作进行了同行评审，他们每周7天，每天7天，每天收集数据二十四个小时，持续了两年多。严重的自然灾害通常会导致互联网中断，通常是由于公用电杆故障，洪水或电线破裂而导致的电力或通信损失；该相关性已由几个组显示。尽管该团队今天向研究人员提供了停电数据，但目前，该数据对于外行人甚至科学家来说都是无法访问的，因为它们无法轻易浏览数据或深入研究感兴趣的区域。该项目使Internet停电数据可以通过新的交互式网站访问，其目标是直接协助公民，急救人员和科学家了解灾难的范围及其康复范围。其次，该网站和数据用于将团队的停电数据与灾难中“地面真相”的两个来源进行比较。地面真相的主要来源将是联邦通信委员会（FCC）的NORS（网络中断报告系统）：这些行业报告的中断是美国政府今天用来评估美国电信系统状况的数据。这项工作将基于与FCC进行的持续合作，在该协作中，团队为FCC提供了停电数据，并与他们合作将其与FCC的专有数据进行比较。该团队还希望将其数据与公用事业停电的公共报告进行比较。这项工作可以更好地理解互联网中可检测到的中断与公用事业中断之间的关系。通过使研究人员和公众更容易访问当前数据，以及我们将三范围的数据与地面真相数据源进行比较而产生的理解。此外，使其他研究人员更容易访问现有的中断数据。这项工作促进了对自然灾害的后果和恢复速度的更好，更及时的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估标准来通过评估来支持的。