• Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture [Submitted on 19 Feb 2026] Title:Robust and Extensible Measurement of Broadband Plans with BQT+ View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Independent, street address-level broadband data is essential for evaluating Internet infrastructure investments, such as the $42B Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. • Evaluating these investments requires longitudinal visibility into broadband availability, quality, and affordability, including data on pre-disbursement baselines and changes in providers’ advertised plans. • While such data can be obtained through Internet Service Provider (ISP) web interfaces, these workloads impose three fundamental system requirements: robustness to frequent interface evolution, extensibility across hundreds of providers, and low technical overhead for non-expert users. • Existing systems fail to meet these three essential requirements. • We present BQT+, a broadband plan measurement framework that replaces monolithic workflows with declarative state/action specifications. • BQT+ models querying intent as an interaction state space, formalized as an abstract nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA), and selects execution paths at runtime to accommodate alternative interaction flows and localized interface changes.
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- Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture [Submitted on 19 Feb 2026] Title:Robust and Extensible Measurement of Broadband Plans with BQT+ View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Independent, street address-level broadband data is essential for evaluating Internet infrastructure investments, such as the $42B Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Evaluating these investments requires longitudinal visibility into broadband availability, quality, and affordability, including data on pre-disbursement baselines and changes in providers’ advertised plans. While such data
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