Neubot is a research project on network neutrality. The project is based on a lightweight open-source program that interested users can download and install on their computers. The program runs in background and periodically performs transmission tests with some test servers and with other instances of the program itself. These transmission tests probe the Internet using various application level protocols. The program saves tests results locally and uploads them on the project servers. The collected dataset contains samples from various Providers and allows to monitor network neutrality.

The poster "Neubot: il network neutrality bot" by Simone Basso, presented in the context of the poster session of NEXA Conference 2011, written in Italian, provides a great introduction to the project rationale and design, and includes a preliminary qualitative study of the results, lifted from the AICA'11 paper.

The slides "Network Measurement & the Neubot Project", by Simone Basso, were used by Simone Basso to present Neubot in the context of the Network Neutrality panel of NEXA Conference 2011.

The article “The hitchhiker’s guide to the Network Neutrality Bot test methodology” by Simone Basso, Antonio Servetti and Juan Carlos De Martin, presented on November 16, 2011 at the Congresso AICA 2011, documents the details of the HTTP test, discusses the privacy policy that allows the Project to publish raw results, and provides a qualitative by-ISP description of the Turin-area data. You can also download the slides and the raw data and scripts used for the article.

The article "The network neutrality bot architecture: a preliminary approach for self-monitoring of Internet access QoS" by Simone Basso, Antonio Servetti and Juan Carlos De Martin, presented on July 1, 2011 at the IEEE 16th International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'11), describes enhancements of the Neubot architecture to be able to host "plug-in" tests and starts a preliminary discussion on the results collected in the first three months after the public release of the software. The article received the best student paper award. You can also download the slides.

The poster "Neubot, the network neutrality bot" by Simone Basso, presented in the context of the poster session of NEXA Conference 2010, explains (in italian) what is the problem with network neutrality, how neubot 0.3.x works, and reports the first results (mainly the number of downloads and the number of unique users as of 2010-11-22).

The article "Rationale, Design, and Implementation of the Network Neutrality Bot" by Simone Basso, Antonio Servetti, and Juan Carlos De Martin, presented at Congresso AICA 2010, summarizes background and objectives, and describes the project design and implementation.

The article “The Neubot Project: A Collaborative Approach To Measuring Internet Neutrality” by Juan Carlos De Martin and Andrea Glorioso, presented at IEEE ISTAS 08, offers a detailed description of the background and objectives of this project.

The project development takes place at neubot.org.