Hi Tor team,

I'm Claudiu, a second year PhD student in CS at Sapienza University (Rome, Italy) and I would like to work on your GSOC idea to build a VB-based simulator for OONI. My main research topics are network neutrality and broadband measurement and I'm currently working on a project on traffic shaping detection. I also partecipated to last year GSOC when I developed in Python a server selection mechanism for M-Lab (https://code.google.com/p/m-lab/source/browse/?repo=ns).

I've worked in the past with Netkit (http://wiki.netkit.org/index.php/Main_Page) and I think it meets all the requirements of this GSOC project.  Netkit is an open source project,based on user-mode linux[1], a linux kernel that can be executed as a user  process on a standard linux box. In particular, each virtual machine in Netkit can be configured to play the role of a regular host, of a router, or even of a switch.  For this project, each test could be set up as a ‘netkit lab’, which is a set of preconfigured virtual machines that can be started and halted together. For example, one virtual machine running ooniprobe could be connected to the external world through a second virtual machine that implements various censorship policies, specific to each test.

Regards,

Claudiu

[1] http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/