{"id":5379,"date":"2024-08-11T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2024-08-11T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T18:54:35","slug":"seeking-beta-users-for-100-gb-link-anonymized-passive-traces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/2024\/08\/11\/seeking-beta-users-for-100-gb-link-anonymized-passive-traces\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Beta Users for 100 GB link Anonymized  Passive Traces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are seeking beta users for our new Anonymized Two-Way Passive Trace dataset, captured on a 100 GB link between Los Angeles and San Jose. Beginning in April 2024, we have been capturing a one-hour trace each month. To protect privacy, we strip all packet payloads after the layer 4 headers, and anonymize IP (v4 and v6) addresses with CryptoPan. The monthly data is provided in two separate files, one for each direction of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>This dataset includes the following metadata fields:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monitor Name<\/li>\n<li>Year and month (including a link to a graphical display of breakup by protocol, application, and country)<\/li>\n<li>Start time of trace (UTC)<\/li>\n<li>Stop time of trace (UTC)<\/li>\n<li>Number of IPv4 packets<\/li>\n<li>Number of IPv6 packets<\/li>\n<li>Unknown packets (as a fraction of the total number of packets)<\/li>\n<li>Transmission rate in packets per second<\/li>\n<li>Transmission rate in bits per second<\/li>\n<li>Link load (as a fraction of the nominal maximum load for a 100 GB link)<\/li>\n<li>Average packet size (bytes) (including a link to a graph of the packet size distribution).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The data is stored in our Swift OpenStack object storage. Each one-directional anonymized pcap file captured monthly is approximately 1TB in size, so users will need more than 2TB of space to download the entire one-hour capture. For those without access to such storage and\/or processing capacity, contact us and we will discuss other alternatives. We are also releasing statistical information for each hourly trace.<\/p>\n<p>Academic researchers can request access to the data by filling out and submitting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caida.org\/catalog\/datasets\/request_user_info_forms\/passive_100g_dataset_request\/\">request form.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We will prioritize users who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have significant experience with network traffic analysis<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate a clear plan for how they will use the dataset<\/li>\n<li>Can commit to regular feedback and participation throughout the beta testing period<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are seeking beta users for our new Anonymized Two-Way Passive Trace dataset, captured on a 100 GB link between Los Angeles and San Jose. Beginning in April 2024, we have been capturing a one-hour trace each month. To protect privacy, we strip all packet payloads after the layer 4 headers, and anonymize IP (v4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}