Grid Enabled Internet Instruments

Abstract

This paper introduces the Grid Enabled Internet Instrument concept and discusses instruments that are being developed at Victoria University to measure Internet quality. The first instrument is a Grid version of the network telescope for studying Internet Background Radiation (IBR) and the second is a hybrid client honeypot system using high and low interaction devices for scanning the web for malicious content and servers. A third instrument on VOIP quality has been approached through simulation. The GEII framework is a work in progress and the initial design is introduced in this paper as the basis of a new Grid of Internet sensors that could be deployed to improve Internet measurement and gain a global insight to Internet quality.