The Internet Measurement Network (AIORI-IMN)

This paper establishes the need of an Internet measurement network for India which is capable of measuring, collecting, analysing, collaborating and sharing metrics. The purpose is to help in advanced Internet operations research towards a fast, responsive, stable, resilient and secured Internet infrastructure. The paper using use-case demonstrates the advantages of having an indigenous Internet measurement network for stakeholders and the benefits accruing to the digital ecosystem. The paper provides a brief of the existing Internet measurement networks already running globally and introduces Advanced Internet Operations Research in India-Internet Measurement Network (AIORI-IMN). AIORI is a grant in aid program of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) with Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) as the executing agency and India Internet Foundation (IIFON) as the implementing agency. The AIORI research project has two components. The first component AIORI-IMN is introduced in this paper. The second component Anycast Test Bed helps in researching and building distributed edge services, currently research on DNS deployment models are being carried out. Both the components compliment each other to achieve the said objectives.