Experiment Coordination for Large-scale Measurement Platforms
Mario A. Sánchez, Fabián E. Bustamante, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Walter Willinger · 2015
The risk of placing an undesired load on networks and networked services through probes originating from measurement platforms has always been present. While several scheduling schemes have been proposed to avoid undue loads or DDoS-like effects from uncontrolled experiments, the motivation scenarios for such schemes have generally been considered "sufficiently unlikely" and safely ignored by most existing measurement platforms. We argue that the growth of large, crowdsourced measurement systems means we cannot ignore this risk any longer.