Traceroute Format Change Request for Comments (RFC)
M-Lab’s traceroute-caller (TRC) tool was designed and developed in early 2019 as a sidecar service running on M-Lab servers. Its purpose is to collect traceroute data to any remote IP address after it closes its TCP connection to an M-Lab server. TRC uses the scamper tool for running traceroutes.
Upcoming M-Lab Community Call discussing Measurement, Meaning and Purpose
At TPRC 2021, Dave Clark and Sare Wedeman presented “Measurement, Meaning and Purpose: Exploring the NDT Dataset” which raises relevant and timely questions about M-Lab’s NDT dataset and its potential applications. Please join us Wednesday, December 15, 2021 from 11am-12:00 pm Eastern for a presentation from the authors and a discussion with the M-Lab community.
Open Call for M-Lab Research Fellows - due Monday, December 6
How can M-Lab’s data and platform be used to improve the experience of the Internet for the end user?
Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.
Upcoming M-Lab Community Call discussing Latency, Bufferbloat, Responsiveness
Internet performance is often measured by download and upload “speed” but there are other metrics that can help measure connectivity, such as latency, bufferbloat and a more recently discussed metric: responsiveness. Join us next Wednesday, August 25, 2021 from 11am-12:30pm Eastern for a conversation with Internet Measurement researchers with expertise and interest in each of these metrics including: