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ANT research projects
ANT consists of a number of related research projects.
active research projects
- 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 are thankful for 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).
completed research projects
- 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)