MAMI – Measurement and Architecture for a Middleboxed Internet

At a glance

Project leader : Dr. Kühlewind Mirja
Project team : Trammell Brian, Dr. Lopez Diego, Prof. Dr. Fairhurst Gorry, Learmouth Iain, Edeline Korian, Dr. Varvello Matteo, Roman Müntener, Dr. Stephan Neuhaus, Dr. David Ros, Dr. Fossati Thomas
Project budget : EUR 340'000
Project status : completed
Funding partner : EU and other international programmes (Horizon 2020 / Projekt Nr. 688421)
Project partner : Simula, Université de Liege, Telefonica, ETH Zürich, Nokia, University of Aberdeen

Description

The Internet is full of middleboxes that change packets and flows. In fact, there is probably no IP or TCP header that is not affected by at least one middlebox. Obviously, middleboxes impede path transparency, i.e., the idea that an exchange of messages results in more or less the same packets, no matter what path the packets takes. This in turn stifles innovation of new transport protocols and hinders adoption of ubiquitous encryption. Furthermore, no one seems to have a truly global view of what middleboxes do to packets on what Internet paths, which would however be an essential knowledge for new transport protocols to be successfully deployed.We address these concerns in the MAMI project by building an observatory of path transparency measurements. The project hosts an extensive set of path transparency measure- ments — we believe it to be the first dataset to deal specifically with middlebox involvement.

Further information

https://mami-project.eu

Publications

Neuhaus, Stephan; Müntener, Roman; Edeline, Korian; Donnet, Benoit; Gubser, Elio,

2016.

Towards an observatory for network transparency research [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2016 workshop on Applied Networking Research Workshop - ANRW 16.

Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW 16), Berlin, 16 July 2016.

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 71-73.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2959424.2959425

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