Projects and Infrastructure

To press forward its mission of promoting the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable Internet, CAIDA focuses its resources on various projects and areas of strategic interest. These pages document the plans and status for these projects. Please contact info@caida.org if you have questions or comments about specific projects.

Projects and Infrastructure

PANDA - Integrated Platform for Applied Network Data Analysis

We 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.
Archipelago Measurement Infrastructure (Ark)

Archipelago (Ark for short) is CAIDA's next-generation active measurement infrastructure and represents an evolution of the skitter infrastructure.
FANTAIL

The FANTAIL system aims to enable discovery of the full potential value of massive raw Internet end-to-end path measurement data sets.
KISMET

The KISMET project explores 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.
MANIC

The Measurement and Analysis of Interdomain Congestion project has developed a prototype system to monitor interdomain links and their congestion state, in order to provide empirical grounding to debates related to interdomain congestion.
Macroscopic Topology Project

Active measurement of connectivity and latency data for a wide cross-section of the commodity Internet.
Spoofer

Measuring the Internet's susceptibility to spoofed source address IP packets, we generate a summary report on the current "state" of Internet IP source address spoofing/filtering using data from an active measurement tool.
CloudTrace

The CloudTrace project investigates how cloud networks interconnect and interact with the public Internet.
Network Telescope

Monitoring of traffic through network telescopes, or portions of routed IP address space on which little or no legitimate traffic exists.
IMPACT

The Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk & Trust (IMPACT) project provides vetted researchers with current network operational data.

Past Projects and Infrastructure

IODA : Detection and analysis of large-scale Internet infrastructure outages

Developing an operational prototype system that monitors the Internet, in near-realtime, to identify macroscopic Internet outages affecting the edge of the network, i.e., significantly impacting an AS or a large fraction of a country.
IMDC (DatCat)

The Internet Measurement Data Catalog, a database to systematize distributed repositories and archives of Internet data and tools.
Cybersecurity

The Cybersecurity project proposes to develop and implement new measurement and data collection technologies to understand and protect essential U.S. informational infrastructure.
Named Data Networking Next Phase (NDN-NP)

Named Data Networking is a proposed Internet architecture that replaces IP with a network layer that routes directly on content names.
IPv6 Evolution

(2012-2016) A measurement-driven exploration of the evolution of IPv6.
Internet Identifier Consumption (IIC) Wiki

(2006-2009) The CAIDA IIC Wiki is a publicly viewable resource on IPv4 address space exhaustion.
Named Data Networking (NDN)

(2010-2014) Named Data Networking is a proposed Internet architecture that replaces IP with a network layer that routes directly on content names.
IRNC Special Project (IRNC-SP)

(2010-2014)
SD-NAP: San Diego Network Access Point

(1998-2000)
Correlating Heterogeneous Measurement Data to Achieve System-Level Analysis of Internet Traffic Trends

(2002-2004)
DNS Analysis: Analysis of the DNS root and gTLD nameserver system

(2001-2002)
ITL - Internet Teaching Laboratories

(1998-2002)
IPNmoo: Inter-Provider Network MOO

(1999-2002)
IEC - Internet Engineering Curriculum Repository

(1997-2002)
Internet Atlas Project

(1999-2004)
A Day in the Life of the Internet

(2002-2009)
COMMONS

Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of Open Networked Systems, a proposed collaboration to simultaneously solve three acute and growing problems facing the Internet.
Geolocation Tools Comparison

(2010)