Internet War Room

1. Internet War Room Wenke Lee, Nick Feamster, David Dagon, Mustaque Ahamad

2. Need • How many in CS know: GTISC/NTG already have 4 joint projects together on large-scale network (Internet) monitoring • NSF CyberTrust Large Team (CLEANSE) • DARPA SMITE (via BBN) • DHS Botnet Monitoring • NSF Computing Research Infrastructure • Need • Shared workspace area for joint projects in networking and security • Showcase for ongoing work and research results

3. Approach: Internet War Room • A common, shared, and workbench-like environment for faculty, staff, students, and guests • Work area for students across areas to meet • Theme/project/problem-focused work area(vs. group-based) • Outward-facing “eye candy” to showcase research activity and results • Glass wall to racks of machines • Flat-panel displays that highlight various activities under study, results, etc. (real-time monitoring, IP heatmaps of spam and botnet activity) • Real-time analysis and data feeds that could be exported to the Web (including CS home page) • An integral part of the larger and more ambitious effort in creating an “internet security institute”

4. Benefits • Easier collaboration across groups • Easy, direct access to machines, racks, etc. for experimentation • Promote our research excellence • Internal exposure • Example to other research groups for running large, cross-disciplinary effort • Add “cool” image to CS research (like what IC has been doing) • External exposure • Recruiting: potential faculty/student applicants, etc. • Show off to visitors from peer institutions • Report/demo to funding agencies • Industry: partnership and donation • Other potential collaborators

5. Competition • Other universities with similar strengths may try to start a similar effort/institute • CAIDA/UCSD (Savage, Claffy)