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application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01 The student, Tzu-Bin Yan, accepted the attached license on 2025-04-18 at 08:58. The student, Tzu-Bin Yan, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2025-04-18 at 09:29. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2025-04-18 at 10:47. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21830 on 2025-10-19 at 19:15:09 PacketLab - An internet measurement framework for low-cost vantage point sharing Yan, Tzu-Bin 2025-04-18 Levchenko, Kirill Levchenko, Kirill Wang, Gang Xu, Tianyin claffy, kc Internet measurement PacketLab Network measurement eng Vantage point sharing is a common and economical approach by Internet measurement community members to procure proper vantage points for measurement campaigns. Sharing, however, is not frictionless and suffers from three obstacles—lack of vantage point compatibility, low incentives to support new measurements, and varying experimenter trust levels—limiting scale. In this dissertation, we present the PacketLab Internet measurement framework to facilitate vantage point access collaboration among community members. We first describe PacketLab’s three-component design: a universal measurement endpoint interface, a certificate/program-based access control mechanism, and a measurement rendezvous mechanism, along with the design benefits, advantages over other sharing approaches, as well as our implementation of the framework that is readily available to the public. We then present an evaluation of the framework on measurement support, which is critical to the framework’s applicability to the community in accommodating community-interested measurements. To further support experimenters’ efforts in framework adoption, we also present a novel network access virtualization tool, pktwrap, which allows existing, unmodified measurement programs to communicate over a PacketLab vantage point to collect less timing-sensitive data, with partial support for network event delay data collection. With our positive evaluation results, readily available implementation, and a capable virtualization tool, we believe the PacketLab framework is a promising candidate for the Internet measurement community in future collaborative Internet data collection efforts. 2025-05 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/129544 Copyright 2025 Tzu-Bin Yan Siebel School Comp & Data Sci Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Dissertation