University of Chicago Professor Nick Feamster and his teams at the Internet Equity Initiative and NetMicroscope are using data analytics to provide insight into regional network performance, application quality and how to improve network automation.
Internet performance can vary widely across geographies, even from neighborhood to neighborhood. Understanding these variances in the US is no small task.
To study the factors impacting network performance, Nick Feamster, Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and his team working on the Internet Equity Initiative are using data from the US Census, Ookla and the FCC to map out broadband access, Internet performance and reliability at a household level.
"The general goal of the Initiative is to apply Internet measurements to understand Internet performance across geographies and in particular how Internet performance – and by that I mean application performance, reliability, etc. – how this varies across geographies and specifically neighborhoods," Feamster tells Light Reading.
In addition, he and his team at the NetMicroscope organization are working with service providers to provide insight into application quality, perform network analysis and improve network automation.
Click on the caption button for a lightly edited transcript.
Here are a few topics we cover in the podcast:
Background on the Internet Equity Initiative (05:27)
Geographies analyzed in the Initiative's map (07:12)
Revisiting hypotheses about ISP infrastructure as discussed in the paper Benchmarks or Equity? A New Approach to Measuring Internet Performance (10:16)
NetMicroscope analyzes network data to give service providers insights into Internet and application performance (14:22)
How service providers can use NetMicroscope insight to drill down into issues with network performance (17:16)
What's next for the Internet Equity Initiative (24:51)
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