What is the purpose of CAIDA? What are its goals?
CAIDA seeks to address engineering concerns relating to topics that: • are macro-level, cross-ISP in nature, e.g., infrastructure level measurements and analyses • evolve technologies to scale up the performance of the Internet, e.g., web caching, multicast • promote enhanced understanding of traffic trends affecting individual and global Internet infrastructures, e.g., characterization of traffic behavior using active and passive measurements and the analysis of routing data • improve ISPs’ ability to manage their networks through improved traffic analysis and visualization tools Insofar as possible, CAIDA serves as a facilitator for collaborations in these topic areas, and provides a framework for commercial and research organizations to jointly address areas of common interest. Tools and methodologies developed by CAIDA are intended to have broad applicability within the industry.
