Subject: [Maprg] Call For Participation: ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Afternoon Tutorial on Repeatability and Comparability in Measurement (RCM)

From: Mirja Kühlewind <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:40:53 +0200

Hi all,

in my project, we are organizing a tutorial on Repeatability and Comparability in Measurement at Sigcomm in three weeks in Budapest. If you happen to go there, please join us!

Mirja

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                          Call For Participation

                  ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Afternoon Tutorial on 
           Repeatability and Comparability in Measurement (RCM)

                   on August 20, 2018 in Budapest, Hungary

Repeatability of experiments and comparability of results is a cornerstone of the scientific method. This tutorial dives into the subject of repeatability and comparability in active Internet measurements. We begin with a brief introduction to a set of well-known measurement tools and platforms and examine two active measurement tools focused on a specific problem in Internet measurement: detecting and localizing impairments to feature deployment at layer 4. We then show how frameworks for handling metadata can contribute to repeatability, and how the systemization of normalization and successive data analysis can lead to better repeatability and comparability. This will be done using the MAMI Path Transparency Observatory, which implements this process for impairment measurement in the Internet.

Tutorial Outline

Part 1: Introduction to active measurements of network performance and path transparency

Part 2: Path tracing with tracebox

Part 3: Measuring endpoint support and path transparency with PATHspider

Part 4: Data collection, preservation, and analysis using the Path Transparency Observatory (PTO)

Audience Expectations and Prerequisites

Attendees must bring their own laptop. A virtual image will be provided that can be installed on any machine that conforms to current standards. More detailed hardware requirements will be provided to the attendees a couple of weeks before the tutorial. We expect general base knowledge about active measurement and Linux.  However, no specialized knowledge about specific measurements is expected, and an introduction to the tools used will be provided in the tutorial.

Organizers

Brian Trammell, ETH, Switzerland
Korian Edeline, ULiège, Belgium
Iain R. Learmonth, Aberdeen, UK