DC ACM

With speakers Sascha Meinrath and Robb Topolski.

 

Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open, distributed server platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools and was founded by the
New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab  Consortium, Google Inc., and academic researchers.

Today, M-Lab participants are already developing a suite of tools that allow users to test various aspects of their broadband connections. The
M-Lab platform supports the development of these measurement tools and assists scientific research by providing widely-distributed servers and ample connectivity for researchers' use. Each tool is allocated dedicated resources on the M-Lab platform to facilitate accurate measurements. Server-side tools are openly licensed and operated to allow third-parties to develop their own client-side measurement software. All data collected via M-Lab will be made available to the research community to allow researchers to build on a common pool of
network measurement data.

M-Lab was launched in 2009 and is actively looking to expand the coalition of partnering organizations, network engineers and scientists, and server deployments around the globe to support the initiative.