Our blog:
A view from the edge
Recent posts
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Impact of New Zealand Copyright Legislation on BitTorrent Population
Number of BitTorrent users in New Zealand declines after copyright legislation is put into effect.
(Posted Apr 10, 2012) -
Internet Outages in Palestine
Cyber attacks affect BitTorrent usage in Palestine.
(Posted Nov 16, 2011) -
Regional Impact of Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
Effects of the disaster on BitTorrent population correlates with earthquake and tsunami intensity.
(Posted Nov 07, 2011)
What we do
We conduct research on large-scale distributed computing. Our approach is mainly experimental, focusing on the design, deployment and evaluation of systems that people use. Much of our work is guided by the unique perspective provided by devices at the edge of the Internet and captured through our users/collaborators who adopt and use our software. We are driven by a desire to provide solutions to real network and systems problems, while we also take pleasure in the scientific and engineering contributions that we make.
News
- Mar 16, 2012: Crowd (Soft) Control: Moving Beyond the Opportunistic, a paper by John Rula and Fabián Bustamante presented at HotMobile 2012, was written about in Discovery News, Wired, and MSNBC. Original story here.
- Feb 08, 2012: John Otto presented some of AquaLab's latest work at the CAIDA AIMS workshop.
- Jan 05, 2012: The results for the Apps For Metro Chicago Grand Challenge are in -- and our TrailBlaze app took second place! Congratulations again to students John Rula and Ted Stein!
- Aug 23, 2011: Congratulations to students John Rula and Ted Stein for placing fourth in the Apps For Metro Chicago Challenge. Their app TrailBlaze Chicago helps bikers living in the Chicago area by showing city officials where new bike paths are needed most. View the entire story.
- Aug 15, 2011: In Toronto, John Otto presented "On blind mice and the elephant" at SIGCOMM, Zach Bischof presented "Crowdsourcing ISP characterization to the network edge" at the W-MUST workshop, and Mario Sanchez demoed "Dasu: ISP characterization from the edge"
- Jul 08, 2011: McCormick News wrote an article about our FCC Open Internet Challenge submissions. Please remember to support Dasu and NEWS by voting.
- Jun 01, 2011: We have two applications in the FCC Open Internet Apps Challenge. If you like our work, please vote for either Dasu or NEWS
- Apr 05, 2011: Ars Technica wrote about our analysis of BitTorrent usage during the recent Japanese earthquake and Internet shutdowns in Egypt and Libya.
- Mar 29, 2011: A new version of Dasu, our new BitTorrent extension for ISP characterization, is now in beta testing! Watch our screencastshowing how to install and use Dasu:
- Mar 10, 2011: We have a new blog! Check out our A View from the Edge!
- Mar 03, 2011: Thanks to Andy, Dasu now has a cool new logo!
- Feb 09, 2011: Fabián presented some of AquaLab's latest work at the CAIDA AIMS workshop.
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Dec 15, 2010:
The number of Ono subscribers has just passed 1 million! Here's the current, automatically updated, number of subscribers: 1,429,316
You can also look at a cool map of Ono coverage! - May 07, 2008: Reusing P2P for early detection of network problems - NEWS is a plugin for Vuze/Azureus BitTorrent clients that allows peers to cooperatively detect network problems and unfriendly ISPs. You can download it from here. Join the 54,406 users who have already done so!







