Welcome to Project BISmark

BISmark is the Broadband Internet Service Benchmark. It is a project led by Georgia Tech and the University of Napoli Federico II to develop an OpenWRT-based platform for performing measurements of ISP performance, as well as traffic inside the home. You can use BISmark to measure the performance of their ISP, visualize and monitor traffic patterns from your users and devices inside your home network, and manage your usage caps.

Follow our work on the Project BISmark blog.

Learn more about BISmark

For more information on how to install BISmark on your own router, please see our project wiki.

Documentation

Software

BISmark Development Portal, a starting point to learn about our code repositories and project management tools.
Project BISmark on Github
Network Dashboard, a web application showing historical performance data for BISmark users

Papers and Talks

Talks

The BISmark Project. Overview talk given at Google NYC, May 2011.

Papers

Broadband Internet Performance: A View From the Gateway
S. Sundaresan, W. de Donato, N. Feamster, R. Teixeira, S. Crawford, A. Pescape
ACM SIGCOMM
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. August 2011.
Helping Users Shop for ISPs with Internet Nutrition Labels
S. Sundaresan, N. Feamster, R. Teixeira, A. Tang, W. Edwards, R. Grinter, M. Chetty, W. de Donato
ACM SIGCOMM HomeNets Workshop
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. August 2011.
Instrumenting Home Networks
K. Calvert, W. K. Edwards, N. Feamster, R. Grinter, Y. Deng, X. Zhou
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review
Volume 41, Issue 1, January 2011.

People

We are also grateful to many other contributors who are supporting the project through bug fixes, patches, research, and other improvements. We are indebted to the OpenWRT development team for their continuing support of BISmark.