IMR: RI-P: Programmable Closed-loop Measurement Platform for Last-Mile Networks

IMR：RI-P：最后一英里网络的可编程闭环测量平台

• 批准号: 2224687
• 负责人: Arpit Gupta
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2224687&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IMR; RI; Programmable; Closed; loop

Today's society relies heavily on various Internet-based services for work, education, health care, and entertainment, and the quality of access (or last-mile) network dictates the quality of experience for these services. The quality of access networks in the US varies across different regions, communities, and demographics, contributing to digital inequities. Policymakers are interested in bridging this gap; to do so, they require understanding the state of access quality. This collaborative project will explore the design and deployment strategies for a new network measurement and analytics platform that enables policymakers to assess access networks' quality at scale.This collaborative planning project will bring together researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of Chicago to explore the feasibility of a programmable and scalable data-collection platform, demonstrate the value of closed-loop data collection with specific use-cases, and evaluate different scaling strategies using the data collected from its residential deployments in Chicago. Additionally, this project will organize a workshop inviting different stakeholders from industry, government, and academia to identify scaling strategies, new features, and concrete use cases for the proposed platform.The proposed platform can answer questions ranging from the state of the Internet performance and infrastructure in specific neighborhoods to the Internet speeds and performance characteristics required to support special/new applications (e.g., video conferencing, telehealth, etc.). Such capabilities will empower policymakers and other stakeholders, such as networking researchers, network operators, and end users. It is envisioned that the open-source tools, methods, and data will become the standard that these organizations rely on to both assess the nature of problems in Internet access networks, as well as to assess the effectiveness of various policy interventions, programs, and infrastructure investments, and so forth. Project website: https://pinetrics.cs.ucsb.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.

当今的社会在很大程度上依赖各种基于Internet的服务，用于工作，教育，医疗保健和娱乐，并且访问质量（或最后一英里）网络决定了这些服务的经验质量。美国的访问网络的质量在不同地区，社区和人口统计学方面有所不同，这导致了数字不平等。决策者有兴趣弥合这一差距。为此，他们需要了解访问质量的状态。 This collaborative project will explore the design and deployment strategies for a new network measurement and analytics platform that enables policymakers to assess access networks' quality at scale.This collaborative planning project will bring together researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of Chicago to explore the feasibility of a programmable and scalable data-collection platform, demonstrate the value of closed-loop data collection with specific use-cases, and evaluate different scaling使用从芝加哥住宅部署收集的数据的策略。 Additionally, this project will organize a workshop inviting different stakeholders from industry, government, and academia to identify scaling strategies, new features, and concrete use cases for the proposed platform.The proposed platform can answer questions ranging from the state of the Internet performance and infrastructure in specific neighborhoods to the Internet speeds and performance characteristics required to support special/new applications (e.g., video conferencing, telehealth, etc.).这样的功能将赋予政策制定者和其他利益相关者的能力，例如网络研究人员，网络运营商和最终用户。可以预见的是，开源工具，方法和数据将成为这些组织依靠评估Internet访问网络中问题性质的标准，以及评估各种政策干预，计划和基础设施投资的有效性，等等。项目网站：https：//pinetrics.cs.ucsb.edu/this Award反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。