An Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment

Matthew Luckie; Shivani Hariprasad; Raffaele Sommese; Brendon Jones; Ken Keys; Ricky Mok; K. Claffy

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-85960-1_6

An Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment

Matthew Luckie^*
, Shivani Hariprasad^*
, Raffaele Sommese^*
, Brendon Jones^*
, Ken Keys^*
, Ricky Mok^*
, K. Claffy^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Design and Analysis of Communication Systems

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Abstract

Active Internet measurement is not a zero-risk activity, and access to Internet measurement vantage points typically requires navigating trust relationships among actors involved in deploying, operating, and using the infrastructure. Operators of vantage points (VPs) must balance VP capability against who gets access: the more capable a vantage point, the riskier it is to allow access. We propose an integrated active measurement programming environment that: (1) allows a platform operator to specify the measurements that a user can run, which allows the platform operator to communicate to the VP’s host what their vantage point will do, and (2) provides users with reference implementations of measurement functions that act as building blocks to more complex measurements. We first review active measurement infrastructures and how technical and usability goals have evolved over the years. We prototype and deploy an integrated active measurement programming environment on an existing measurement infrastructure, and illustrate its potential with several case studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Passive and Active Measurement - 26th International Conference, PAM 2025,Virtual event ,Proceedings
Editors	Cecilia Testart, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Burkhard Stiller
Publisher	Springer
Pages	137-152
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9783031859595
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85960-1_6
Publication status	Published - 7 Mar 2025
Event	26th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2025 - Virtual, Virtual, Online Duration: 10 Mar 2025 → 12 Mar 2025 Conference number: 26 https://udesa.edu.ar/pam25

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	15567 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	26th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2025
Abbreviated title	PAM
City	Virtual, Online
Period	10/03/25 → 12/03/25
Internet address	https://udesa.edu.ar/pam25

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Luckie, M., Hariprasad, S., Sommese, R., Jones, B., Keys, K., Mok, R., & Claffy, K. (2025). An Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment. In C. Testart, R. van Rijswijk-Deij, & B. Stiller (Eds.), Passive and Active Measurement - 26th International Conference, PAM 2025,Virtual event ,Proceedings (pp. 137-152). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15567 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85960-1_6

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Luckie, M, Hariprasad, S, Sommese, R, Jones, B, Keys, K, Mok, R & Claffy, K 2025, An Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment. in C Testart, R van Rijswijk-Deij & B Stiller (eds), Passive and Active Measurement - 26th International Conference, PAM 2025,Virtual event ,Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 15567 LNCS, Springer, pp. 137-152, 26th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2025, Virtual, Online, 10/03/25. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85960-1_6

An Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment. / Luckie, Matthew; Hariprasad, Shivani; Sommese, Raffaele et al.
Passive and Active Measurement - 26th International Conference, PAM 2025,Virtual event ,Proceedings. ed. / Cecilia Testart; Roland van Rijswijk-Deij; Burkhard Stiller. Springer, 2025. p. 137-152 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15567 LNCS).

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Luckie M, Hariprasad S, Sommese R, Jones B, Keys K, Mok R et al. An Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment. In Testart C, van Rijswijk-Deij R, Stiller B, editors, Passive and Active Measurement - 26th International Conference, PAM 2025,Virtual event ,Proceedings. Springer. 2025. p. 137-152. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-85960-1_6

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