Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
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The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA, icon) is a collaborative undertaking among organizations in the commercial, government, and research sectors aimed at promoting greater cooperation in the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure. CAIDA provides a neutral framework to support cooperative technical endeavors. It is based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center
at the University of California, San Diego
.
CAIDA's goals are:
Their most easily recognized graphic is their "skitter" chart.
San Diego Supercomputer Center
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego . Physically, SDSC is located on the east end of Eleanor Roosevelt College on the campus of UCSD....
at the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
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CAIDA's goals are:
- To encourage the creation of Internet traffic metrics, in collaboration with IETF/IPPM and other organizations, and work with industry, consumer, regulatory, and other representatives to assure their utility and universal acceptance.
- To create a collaborative research and analytic environment in which various forms of traffic data can be acquired, analyzed, and, as appropriate, shared.
- Foster the development of advanced methodologies and techniques for: traffic performance and flow characterization, simulation, analysis, and visualization. Specific areas of future impact include real-time routing instability diagnosis and evolution for next generation measurement and routing protocols (multicast and unicast).
Their most easily recognized graphic is their "skitter" chart.