Northbridge Network Systems Lab
A research lab workbench with laptops and measurement equipment.

Network measurement, systems, and reproducibility

Researching how everyday networks behave under real load.

We publish datasets, teaching material, and engineering notes from small-scale experiments in network measurement, edge services, and campus infrastructure.

Current Work

Practical experiments, plain reporting.

Transport traces

Short reports on connection timing, retransmission behavior, and how common applications behave during routine measurements.

Campus edge services

Operational notes from maintaining small public services, certificate automation, and static publishing pipelines.

Teaching datasets

Curated packet captures, sanitized logs, and lab exercises used in undergraduate systems courses.

Facilities

Measurement hardware, repeatable setup.

Our lab keeps a modest rack and a repeatable bench environment so students can compare traces across semesters without rebuilding the whole testbed.

  • 12 managed test nodes
  • 4 isolated network segments
  • 24h rolling public service telemetry
Network racks with patch panels and status lights.
Campus edge rack used for controlled measurement exercises.
Sample instrumentation dashboard recording from a teaching run.
A facility map style image overlaid on a network rack photo.
Asset inventory and experiment schedule snapshots are published each term.

Recent Notes

Public reading list

  1. An informal note on trace comparison
  2. Notes on connection timing in small experiments
  3. Static sites as reproducible research notebooks

Field Desk

Current lab snapshot

The public desk publishes a small rolling snapshot from the teaching bench and refreshes it during normal visits.

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Active nodes
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Sample queue
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Recent observations

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Reference shelves

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