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| CAIDA Funding | Period of Performance |
|---|---|
| DARPAPENMANPerformance Evaluation Network Measurements and AnalyticsThe project's goal is to improve substantially the ability of a third party to ascertain the presence of performance bottlenecks along a given path of interest, and identify physical attributes of that bottleneck.
kc claffy
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA cooperative agreement HR00112020014)
| 2020 - 2021 |
| DIBBSPANDAIntegrated Platform for Applied Network Data AnalysisWe are developing a new Platform for Applied Network Data Analysis (PANDA) that will offer researchers more accessible calibrated user-friendly tools for collecting, analyzing, querying, and interpreting measurements of the Internet ecosystem.
kc claffy, Alberto Dainotti, Bradley Huffaker
National Science Foundation (NSF OAC-1724853)
| 2017 - 2021 |
| CCRIFANTAILFacilitating Advances in Network Topology AnalysisWe propose to develop a system to enable discovery of the full potential value of massive raw Internet end-to-end path measurement data sets.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1925729)
| 2019 - 2022 |
| CNSSLAMStrategies for Large-Scale IPv6 Active MappingThis is a collaborative project co-led by Professor Robert Beverly of Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Measurement and Analysis of Network Data. We propose to rigorously investigate, develop, and evaluate Strategies for Large-Scale IPv6 Active Mapping (SLAM), with three inter-related and complementary thrusts: measurement strategies that can amplify our coverage by orders of magnitude; innovations in IPv6-specific algorithms to infer router-level topologies; and analysis and remediation of security and privacy risks that our measurements reveal.
kc claffy, Aaron Schulman
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1901517)
| 2019 - 2022 |
| MapKITInvestigating the Susceptibility of the Internet Topology to Country-level Connectivity Disruption and ManipulationIn collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we seek to develop methodologies to highlight and quantify macroscopic vulnerabilities of the Internet infrastructure, especially from the perspective of cyberterrorist attacks and cyber-conflicts between nation-states.
Alberto Dainotti, Amogh Dhamdhere
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1705024)
| 2017 - 2021 |
| MADDVIPRMapping DNS DDoS Vulnerabilities to Improve Protection and PreventionIn collaboration with researchers from the University of Twente, Netherlands, we will perform comprehensive analysis of the DDoS attacks targeting the DNS and assess vulnerabilities that threaten the resilience of the DNS under such DDoS attacks.
Alberto Dainotti, kc claffy
Department of Homeland Security (DHS S&T cooperative agreement FA8750-19-2-0004)
| 2018 - 2021 |
| NeTS-PacketLabA Universal Measurement Endpoint InterfaceThis project aims to answer several fundamental questions in network measurement including 1) how to express measurement experiments using a small number of measurement primitives; 2) whether experiment logic can be effectively moved off the endpoint conducting the measurement; and 3) how measurement platform operators can ensure conformance to their platform policies while encouraging resource sharing.
Kirill Levchenko, kc claffy, Amogh Dhamdhere
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1764055, NSF CNS-1903612)
| 2018 - 2021 |
| STARDUSTSustainable Tools for Analysis and Research on Darknet Unsolicited TrafficThis project aims at maintaining continued operation of the UCSD Network Telescope infrastructure and maximizing its utility to researchers from various disciplines.
Alberto Dainotti
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1730661)
| 2017 - 2021 |
| OTF-Censorship OutagesCensorship OutagesAn Observatory for Realtime Monitoring and Analysis of Internet Blackouts Caused by CensorshipWe are creating an observatory for Internet shutdowns caused by censorship and seek to make this platform as useful as possible to the general public.
Alberto Dainotti
Open Technology Fund (Radio Free Asia contract 1002-2019-009)
| 2019 - 2020 |
| RAPIDRAPID-Speed TestMeasuring Critical Infrastructure for Coronavirus-related CongestionWe propose to orchestrate multiple speed tests across critical paths from the cloud to test servers inside access ISPs, obtain lists of available speed test servers in the US, and then execute speed tests from cloud instances using automated headless browser scripts.
Ricky Mok, kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-2028506)
| 2020 - 2020 |
| ASPIREAugment Spoofer Project to Improve Remediation EffortsThe overarching objective of our project is to promote using Source Address Validation Best Current Practices (SAV BCP) by networks around the world.
kc claffy
Department of Homeland Security (DHS S&T contract 140D7018C0010)
| 2018 - 2020 |
| IMPACTASSISTSAdvancing Scientific Study of Internet Security and Topological StabilityCAIDA participates in the Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk & Trust (IMPACT) program as a Data Provider and as a Decision Analytics-as-a-Service Provider.
kc claffy, Alberto Dainotti
Department of Homeland Security (DHS cooperative agreement FA8750-18-2-0049)
| 2017 - 2020 |
| OKNOKN-KISMETOpen Knowledge Network - Knowledge of Internet Structure: Measurement, Epistemology, and TechnologyWe propose to explore the feasibility of codifying an Open Knowledge Network (OKN) about properties of the Internet identifier system - the domain names and addresses that represent communication entities - and the rich structural relationships among these entities.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF C-ACCEL OIA-1937165)
| 2019 - 2020 |
| PARIDINEIODA-NPMulti-source Realtime Detection of Macroscopic Internet Connectivity DisruptionThe focus of this project is on detection and characterization of large-scale Internet outages significatnly affecting large geographic regions or specific Internet operators.
Alberto Dainotti
Department of Homeland Security (DHS contract 70RSAT18CB0000015)
| 2018 - 2020 |
| OTF-ObservatoryCensorship Outages ObservatoryAn Observatory for Realtime Monitoring and Analysis of Internet Blackouts Caused by CensorshipWe are creating an observatory for Internet shutdowns caused by censorship and seek to make this platform as useful as possible to the general public.
Alberto Dainotti
Radio Free Asia (Radio Free Asia contract 1002-2018-027)
| 2018 - 2019 |
| ARTEMISExperimental Deployment of the ARTEMIS BGP Hijacking Detection Prototype in Research and Educational NetworksIn collaboration with INSPIRE group (FORTH, Greece) we will carry out a first experimental assisted deployment of our Automatic and Real-Time dEtection and Mitigation System (ARTEMIS) in selected research and educational networks in the U.S.
Alberto Dainotti
National Science Foundation (NSF OAC-1848641)
| 2018 - 2019 |
| iLENS-NPInternet Laboratory for Empirical Network Science: Next PhaseThe focus of this project is on achieving greater involvement from a broader cross-section of the network research community in using the Ark infrastructure and the data products it enables.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1513283)
| 2015 - 2019 |
| Modeling IPv6 AdoptionA Measurement-driven Computational ApproachThis project seeks to measure the adoption of IPv6 and characterize factors affecting IPv6 deployment.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1528148)
| 2015 - 2018 |
| HIJACKSDetecting and Characterizing Internet Traffic Interception Based on BGP HijackingThe objective of this project is to enable near real-time detection and characterization of traffic interception events in the global Internet.
Alberto Dainotti
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1423659)
| 2014 - 2019 |
| Economics of Contractual Arrangements for Internet InterconnectionsIn collaboration with Georgia Tech, we evaluate and model the currently existing framework of Internet interconnections and re-design it through an interdisciplinary techno-economic perspective.
Amogh Dhamdhere
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1513847)
| 2015 - 2019 |
| AT&T InterconnectionMeasuring Internet Interconnection Performance MetricsPursuant to an FCC order 15-94, AT&T engages CAIDA as an Independent Measurement Expert to perform various duties in connection with developing a methodology for the measurement of Internet interconnection performance metrics.
kc claffy
AT&T (AT&T contract 20161289)
| 2015 - 2019 |
| NTTQUINCE-2Quality of User Internet Customer Experience: A Reactive Crowdsourcing-based QoE Monitoring Platform - Term 2We are developing a framework which integrates existing network measurement infrastructures and crowdsourcing platforms to measure the Quality-of-Experience on network paths. Building on this success, in the second term, we propose to continue and expand the scale of deployment.
kc claffy
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
| 2019 - 2020 |
| NTTQUINCEQuality of User Internet Customer Experience: A Reactive Crowdsourcing-based QoE Monitoring PlatformWe are developing a framework which integrates existing network measurement infrastructures and crowdsourcing platforms to measure the Quality-of-Experience on network paths.
kc claffy
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
| 2018 - 2018 |
| SISTERScience of Internet Security: Technology and Experimental ResearchUsing the versatile Ark measurement platform, we will conduct measurements and analysis for documented explanations of structural and dynamic aspects of the Internet infrastructure relevant to cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
kc claffy
Department of Homeland Security (DHS S&T contract HHSP 233201600012C)
| 2016 - 2018 |
| CongestionMapping Interconnection in the Internet: Colocation, Connectivity and CongestionIn collaboration with MIT/CSAIL, we will characterize the changing nature of the Internet's topology and traffic dynamics, and describe the implications of these changes for network science, architecture, operations, and public policy.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1414177)
| 2014 - 2018 |
| SpooferSoftware Systems for Surveying Spoofing SusceptibilitySeeking to minimize Internet's susceptibility to spoofed DDoS attacks, we will develop, build, and operate multiple open-source software tools to assess and report on the deployment of source address validation (SAV) best anti-spoofing practices.
kc claffy
Department of Homeland Security (DHS S&T contract D15PC00188)
| 2015 - 2018 |
| COECIRIQuantifying Interdependencies of the Logical/Physical Internet topologiesWe seek to quantify the impact of observed outages and evaluate the interdependencies of the logical and physical Internet topologies.
kc claffy
Department of Homeland Security (DHS COE CIRI grant 2015-ST-061-CIRC01, Subaward 077083-16369)
| 2017 - 2018 |
| IMPACTSupporting Research and Development of Security Technologies through Network and Security Data Collection (formerly PREDICT)Our activities for this project include collection, curation, hosting, and distribution of active and passive Internet measurement data as well as providing advice on technical, legal, and practical aspects of the policies and procedures of the DHS Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk & Trust (IMPACT) project.
kc claffy
Department of Homeland Security (DHS S&T cooperative agreement FA8750-12-2-0326)
| 2012 - 2017 |
| NDN-NPNamed Data Networking Next PhaseThe Named Data Networking Next Phase project (NDN-NP) is the next stage of a collaborative project (one of the three Future Internet Architecture Awards) for the research, development, and testbed deployment of a new Internet architecture that replaces IP with a network layer that routes directly on content names.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1345286)
| 2014 - 2017 |
| IODADetection and analysis of large-scale Internet infrastructure outagesThe Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) project applies successful results in analyzing large-scale Internet outages to the development, testing, and deployment of an operational capability to detect, monitor, and characterize future episodes of Internet connectivity disruptions.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1228994)
| 2012 - 2016 |
| Internet MappingCartographic Capabilities for Critical CyberinfrastructureThe C4 project continued research and development efforts started under our previous contract with DHS (Leveraging the Science and Technology of Internet Mapping for Homeland Security). We developed new technologies and analysis capabilities spanning multiple research domains of the Internet measurement field to enable delivery of cybersecurity-relevant annotated maps of critical Internet resources.
kc claffy
Department of Homeland Security (DHS S&T N66001-12-C-0130)
| 2012 - 2016 |
| Exploring the evolution of IPv6topology, performance, and trafficThis project, in collaboration with the Naval Postgraduate School, seeks to characterize the status of IPv6 deployment while simultaneously advancing the state-of-the-art in network measurement science and technology.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1111449)
| 2012 - 2016 |
| SDCI-DatCatMetadata Management Software Tools to Support Cybersecurity Research and Development of Sustainable Cyberinfrastructure.The focus of this project is on enhancing the utility of Internet Measurement Data Catalog (IMDC) for the needs of cybersecurity and cyberinfrastructure research community as well as in support of the new NSF Data Sharing Policy.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF OCI-1127500)
| 2011 - 2014 |
| NDNNamed Data Networking (First Phase)The main goal of this collaborative project (one of the four Future Internet Architecture Awards) is research, development, and testbed deployment of a new Internet architecture that replaces IP with a network layer that routes directly on content names.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1039646)
| 2010 - 2014 |
| TelescopeA Real-time Lens into Dark Address Space of the InternetWe are expanding our existing network telescope instrumentation to capture unique global data elucidating macroscopic events (large-scale attacks, malware spread, censorship, and geophysical disasters such as earthquakes) and make these data available to vetted security researchers.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1059439)
| 2011 - 2014 |
| Routing / NetSEDiscovering Hyperbolic Metric Spaces Hidden Beneath the Internet and Other Complex NetworksIn researching the development and evaluation of solutions to the impending routing scalability problems, we focus on two related sub-topics: greedy routing based on hidden metric spaces underlying real networks; and the relationship between routing efficiency and the structure of the network topology.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-0964236)
| 2010 - 2014 |
| iLENSInternet Laboratory for Empirical Network ScienceThe goal of the iLENS project was to develop the active measurement infrastructure Archipelago (Ark), providing academic researchers with an unprecedented laboratory in which to quickly design, implement, and easily coordinate the execution of experiments across a widely distributed set of dedicated monitors.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-0958547)
| 2010 - 2014 |
| IRNC-SPSustainable data-handling and analysis methodologies for the IRNC networksThe goal of this IRNC Special Project was to identify and support the measurement priorities of the International Research Network Connections community.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF OCI-0963073)
| 2010 - 2014 |
| Dynamic GraphsUniversal Laws of Structural Dynamics of Large Scale GraphsThe main goal of this project is to develop a mathematically rigorous model describing dynamic graphs of complex networks evolving in time.
Dmitri Krioukov
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA grant HR0011-12-1-0012)
| 2012 - 2013 |
| NetSE-EconThe Economics of Transit and Peering Interconnections in the InternetDeveloping and verifying a model of AS interconnection, we study various interconnection practices, the stability and dynamics of interdomain links, and economic properties of the resulting equilibrium.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1017064)
| 2010 - 2013 |
| CybersecurityLeveraging the Science and Technology of Internet Mapping for Homeland SecurityApplying a decade of experience in Internet topology measurement, analysis, modeling, and visualization to DHS' immediate cybersecurity needs to understand and protect essential U.S. information infrastructure.
kc claffy
Department of Homeland Security (DHS N66001-08-C-2029)
| 2008 - 2012 |
| PREDICTSupporting Research and Development of Security Technologies through Network and Security Data CollectionOur primary activities for this project include collection, curation, hosting, and distribution of active and passive Internet measurement data as well as providing advice on technical, legal, and practical aspects of PREDICT policies and procedures.
kc claffy
Department of Homeland Security (DHS S&T contract D07PC75579)
| 2007 - 2012 |
| CiscoFunding in support of Empirical Internet Research and MeasurementIncludes three separate Cisco grants: Analysis & Visualization of IP Connectivity, Analysis & Visualization of BGP Connectivity Among Autonomous Systems, and COMMONS
kc claffy
Cisco Corporation
| 2003 - 2005 |
| CONMIToward Community-Oriented Network Measurement InfrastructureUpgrading both of our current measurement infrastructures (passive and active) to provide the research community data from the wide area Internet that will target the need for validation of current and proposed efforts in large-scale network modeling, simulation, empirical analysis, and architecture development.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF 05-51542)
| 2006 - 2010 |
| DNS-ITRImproving the Integrity of Domain Name System (DNS) Monitoring and ProtectionThe primary objective of the DNS-ITR project was to provide much needed data in support of the DNS research. The data collection and analysis methods, services and tools resulting from this project are essential to protecting the robustness and advancing the development of the global Internet.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF OAC-0427144)
| 2004 - 2009 |
| NeTS-FINDGreedy Routing on Hidden Metric Spaces as a Foundation of Scalable Routing Architectures without Topology UpdatesThe ultimate goal of this NeTS-FIND project is to find the hidden spaces underlying real networks and to identify node coordinates in them.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-0722070)
| 2007 - 2010 |
| NeTS-NRToward Mathematically Rigorous Next-Generation Routing Protocols for Realistic Network TopologiesOur agenda has three related and clearly defined tasks: 1) execute the next step on the path toward construction of practically acceptable next-generation routing protocols based on mathematically rigorous routing algorithms; 2) validate the applicability of the above algorithms against several sources of real Internet topology data; 3) build and evaluate a model for Internet topology evolution, which reflects fundamental laws of evolution of large-scale networks.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF 0434996)
| 2004 - 2008 |
| NSF TrustQuantitative Network Security AnalysisDeveloping a combination of network analysis techniques and network measurement infrastructure to analyze large-scale Internet security threats.
David Moore
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| 2003 - 2007 |
| TrendsCorrelating Heterogeneous Measurement Data to Achieve System-Level Analysis of Internet Traffic TrendsThe complexity in managing or repairing damage to the system can only be navigated with sustained understanding of the evolving commercial Internet infrastructure. The research and tools proposed under this effort lead to such insights.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| 2003 - 2007 |
| NCSRouting Analysis and Peering Policy for Enhancing Internet Performance and SecurityDeveloping techniques for correlating massive volumes of Internet routing and topology data, and developing and enhancing tools aimed at improving the community's ability to model realistic inter-domain Internet routing behavior.
kc claffy
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| 2001 - 2005 |
| BW-ESTBandwidth EstimationWe improve existing techniques and tools, and test and integrate them into DOE and other network infrastructures.
kc claffy
Department of Energy (DOE)
| 2001 - 2004 |
| NMSNetwork Modeling and SimulationThis project involves development of tools, collection of data, and performance of analyses aimed at supporting the network modeling and simulation communities.
kc claffy
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
| 2001 - 2004 |
| Connectivity Ranking of Autonomous Systems To extend and improve our methodology for deriving and depicting this connectivity ranking, we would like to extend the project in two ways: 1) Automate the rankings of AS connectivity as inferred from large scale active topology probes, and 2) Identify and depict exchange points and their influence on AS inter-connectivity and these rankings.
kc claffy
Cisco Corportation
| 2003 - 2003 |
| Advanced Techniques to Detect and Control Global Security ThreatsWe continue and extend our research and analysis of connectivity among autonomous systems.
David Moore
Cisco Corportation
| 2002 - 2003 |
| NGINext-Generation InternetFocusing on the development of tools to automate the discovery and visualization of Internet topology and peering relationships, monitor and analyze Internet traffic behavior on high speed links, detect and control resource use (security), and provide for storage and analysis of data collected in aforementioned efforts.
kc claffy
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
| 1997 - 2001 |