Poster: Empirically Testing the PacketLab Model

Tzu Bin Yan, Zesen Zhang, Bradley Huffaker, Ricky Mok, Kc Claffy, Kirill Levchenko

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Abstract

PacketLab is a recently proposed model for accessing remote vantage points. The core design is for the vantage points to export low-level network operations that measurement researchers could rely on to construct more complex measurements. Motivating the model is the assumption that such an approach can overcome persistent challenges such as the operational cost and security concerns of vantage point sharing that researchers face in launching distributed active Internet measurement experiments. However, the limitations imposed by the core design merit a deeper analysis of the applicability of such model to real-world measurements of interest. We undertook this analysis based on a survey of recent Internet measurement studies, followed by an empirical comparison of PacketLab-based versus native implementations of common measurement methods. We showed that for several canonical measurement types common in past studies, PacketLab yielded similar results to native versions of the same measurements. Our results suggest that PacketLab could help reproduce or extend around 16.4% (28 out of 171) of all surveyed studies and accommodate a variety of measurements from latency, throughput, network path, to non-timing data.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIMC 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages724-725
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9798400703829
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 24 2023
Event23rd ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2023 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: Oct 24 2023Oct 26 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC
ISSN (Print)2150-3761

Conference

Conference23rd ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period10/24/2310/26/23

Keywords

  • packetlab
  • poster

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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