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NETI@home Version 2.0 is now available! Packed with plenty of enhancements and optimizations NETI@home Version 2.0 is the result of much development. We think you'll enjoy!

Using NETI@home will make the Internet a better place! (and hopefully a little faster)

NETI@home is an open-source software package, named after the widely popular SETI@home, that collects network performance statistics from end-systems. It has been written for and tested on the Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris operating systems, with testing for other operating systems to be completed soon. NETI@home is designed to run on end-user machines and will collect various statistics about Internet performance. These statistics will then be sent to a server at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where they will be collected and made publicly available. We believe that this tool will give researchers much needed data on the end-to-end performance of the Internet, as measured by end-users. Our basic approach is to sniff packets sent from and received by the host and infer performance metrics based on these observed packets. NETI@home users are able to select a privacy level that will determine what types of data will be gathered, and what will not be reported. NETI@home is designed to be an unobtrusive software system that runs quietly in the background with little or no intervention by the user, and using few resources.

NETI@home is written in C++ and uses the popular pcap API to sniff packets. NETI@home also uses the zlib compression library. As previously mentioned, NETI@home has been designed for the Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris operating systems and should work with various other *NIX flavors with little or no modification. NETI@home has been developed as a thesis project at Georgia Tech and has been designed in accordance with the CAIDA specifications on network statistics. In conclusion, NETI@home has been designed to aid researchers who are studying Internet performance by providing a wealth of end-to-end data that has been previously unavailable.

NETI@home includes the NETIMap application, written in Java, to encourage the use of NETI@home. The NETIMap application, when run in conjunction with NETI@home, will display a geographical map of the world. As Internet hosts are contacted (a website, for example), a dot is placed on that host's calculated coordinates. The coordinates are calculated using CAIDA's NetGeo database.

• Both the paper and the results from the recent PADS 2006 workshop in Singapore are posted in the research section.
• A study conducted using NETI@home data to create empirical models of end-user traffic has been accepted for publication as part of PADS 2006. More information, including a full copy of the research paper and the results will be posted soon. (March 13, 2006)
• NETI@home Version 2.0 is now available! Packed with plenty of enhancements and optimizations NETI@home Version 2.0 is the result of much development. We think you'll enjoy! (June 1, 2005)
  Here's just a few of the new features:
  • A completely integrated and robust sniffer - no more need for Ethereal though its still a great product!
  • An update alert to notify users of new versions that strives to be unobtrusive.
  • Support for Mac OS X!!!
  • A much more lightweight Windows installer powered by the open source NSIS.
  • Vastly improved *NIX daemon and Windows service functionality.
  • The ability to read pcap files.
  • And, of course, several new measurements - just check out the research page.
• The following graph shows the power of the Slashdot Effect. (May 12, 2005)

  

• Once again, we're Slashdotted!!! To the Slashdot crowd I say welcome and please check back soon as NETI@home Version 2.0 will be out in the next week or two! (April 25, 2005)
• To my great surprise and happiness NETI@home was posted on Slashdot!!! However, I was in France at the time, so I was a little unprepared - but then again, who is ever prepared for the Slashdot Effect? The Slashdot post refers to another excellent article posted about NETI@home on Wired!!! We have been very lucky to have received so much publicity - and this has been a great boon to the NETI@home project! As you can see from the graph below, the Slashdot Effect had quite an impact on the number of visits to our website! (May 13, 2004)

  

• The NETI@home project has been publicized in an excellent article in Georgia Tech's very own faculty and staff newspaper The Whistle! (PDF) (Mar. 29, 2004)
• Version 1.01 released. Minor bugfixes. See the Changelog for details. (Mar. 28, 2004)
• NETI@home is going to be published work! The kind folks of PAM 2004 found NETI@home interesting enough research material to be published! (Jan. 13, 2004)

NETI@home IS NOT SPYWARE

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