The DARPA SEARCHLIGHT dataset contains ~2000 systematically conducted experiments and resulting packet captures with contemporary video streaming, video teleconferencing, and cloud-based document editing applications.

For more information about this dataset, please see our research paper, titled the same.

News

• 2022-10-10: Dataset is public and website is up! Thanks for everyone’s patience. We’re in the process of uploading to AWS Open Data and will update those links shortly!

Experiment Naming Conventions

Please see our research paper, for more details about each of the network applications we use.

Network Applications

• experiment 1: cloub-based services
• experiment 2: vtc and voip
• experiment 3: video
• experiment 4: ftp

Number of Clients:

• experiment 1, 3, and 4:
  • exp-a: one client
  • exp-b: three clients
  • exp-c: five clients
• experiment 2:
  • exp-a: three clients
  • exp-b: five clients
  • exp-c: eight clients

Acknowledgements

Searchlight Traffic Generation Dataset and Tools of Application Network Traffic [DISTAR case 36697]

This document was cleared by DARPA on August 22, 2022. All copies should carry the Distribution Statement “A” (Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited). This research was developed with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The views, opinions and/or findings expressed are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official views or policies of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.

Dataset created and curated by researchers at USC/ISI and SNL.

Website designed by Mahek Savani.