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ANT research projects
ANT consists of a number of related research projects, usually centered around themes involving network design and measurement.
active research projects
- BRIPOD (CICI: TCR: Building a more Resilient IPv6 from Passive Outage Detection (BRIPOD)) (supported by NSF, started in 2025)
- CMCM (Compliance Monitor for Consent Decree of the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger) (supported by CPUC, started in 2025)
- PIMAWAT (Privacy in Internet Measurements Applied To WAN and Telematics) (supported by NSF, started in 2023)
- Internet-Map (A Traffic Map for the Internet) (supported by NSF, started in 2022)
- CLASSNET (Community Labeling and Sharing of Security and Networking Test datasets) (supported by NSF, started in 2021)
- REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) (supported by NSF, started in 2003)
- ANT (Analysis of Network Traffic) (started in 2000)
We currently have active work supported by industry from Verisign (2025).
completed research projects
We are thankful for prior industrial support from Cisco (2005, 2007), Verisign (2014-2016, 2025), Northop Grumman (2014-2017), Comcast (2023-2024), Amazon (2018), a Michael Keston Research Grant (2017), and The Rose Foundation (2021).
- SAFED-ASP (Safe And Flexible Experimental Dataset Access and Sharing--Planning) (supported by NSF, started in 2022, completed in 2023)
- EIEIO (Event Identification and Evaluation of Internet Outages) (supported by NSF, started in 2020, completed in 2024)
- MINCEQ (Measuring the Internet during Novel Coronavirus to Evaluate Quarantine) (supported by NSF, started in 2020, completed in 2022)
- DIINER (DNS, Identity, and Internet Naming for Experimentation and Research) (supported by NSF, started in 2019, completed in 2024)
- PAADDOS (Plannning for Anycast as Anti-DDoS) (supported by DHS and NWO, started in 2018, completed in 2021)
- DIVOICE (Detecting, Interpreting, and Validating from Outside, In, and Control, Disruptive Events) (supported by DHS, started in 2018, completed in 2020)
- GAWSEED (Global Analysis of Weak Signals for Enterprise Event Detection) (supported by DARPA, started in 2018, completed in 2022)
- IIOVADR (Interactive Internet Outage Visualization to Assess Disaster Recovery) (supported by NSF, started in 2018, completed in 2019)
- LACANIC (Los Angeles/Colorado Application and Network Information Community) (supported by DHS, started in 2018, completed in 2020)
- DDIDD (DDoS Defense in Depth for DNS) (supported by NSF, started in 2017, completed in 2021)
- EARR (Enabling Anycast in the Research Root-2016) (supported by DHS, started in 2017, completed in 2018)
- Retro-Future Bridge (Retro-Future Bridge and Outages) (supported by DHS, started in 2016, completed in 2018)
- DUOI (Detecting and Understanding Outages in the Internet) (supported by DHS, started in 2016, completed in 2020)
- PINEST (Planning for Identity and Naming Experimentation Shared Testbed) (supported by ISI and NSF, started in 2015, completed in 2016)
- T-DNS (T-DNS) (supported by Verisign, started in 2013, completed in 2016)
- Retro-Future (Retro-Future) (supported by DHS, started in 2012, completed in 2016)
- LACREND (Los Angeles/Colorado Research Exchange for Network Data) (supported by DHS, started in 2012, completed in 2017)
- MEGA (Modern Graph Analysis for Dynamic Networks) (supported by DARPA, started in 2012, completed in 2014)
- NIPET (Naming and Internet Protocol Experimentation Testbed) (supported by ISI and NSF, started in 2012, completed in 2019)
- AMITÉ (Annotation and Mapping of Internet Topology at the Edges) (supported by DHS, started in 2009, completed in 2012)
- MR-Net (Map/Reduce for Network Traffic Analysis (NeTS-NBS-SGER)) (supported by NSF, started in 2008, completed in 2010)
- LANDER-2007 (Los Angeles Network Data Exchange and Repository (2007)) (supported by DHS, started in 2007, completed in 2013)
- MADCAT (Maltraffic Analysis and Detection in Challenging and Aggregate Traffic (NeTS-NBD)) (supported by NSF, started in 2006, completed in 2010)
- LANDER (Los Angeles Network Data Exchange and Repository) (supported by DHS, started in 2004, completed in 2007)
- SAMAN (Simulation Augmented by Measurement and Analysis for Networks) (supported by DARPA, started in 2000, completed in 2004)