Quantifying Interference between Measurements on the RIPE Atlas Platform
Thomas Holterbach, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Laurent Vanbever · 2015
Public measurement platforms composed of low-end hardware devices such as RIPE Atlas have gained significant traction in the research community. Such platforms are indeed particularly interesting as they provide Internet-wide measurement capabilities together with an ever growing set of measurement tools. To be scalable though, they allow for concurrent measurements between users. This paper answers a fundamental question for any platform user: Do measurements launched by others impact my results? If so, what can I do about it?