Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of S3Monitor-QSR-Mar10

Timestamp:

04/06/10 14:13:27 (14 years ago)

Author:

Vic Thomas

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S3Monitor-QSR-Mar10

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+= S3MONITOR Project Status Report =
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+'''Period:  First quarter 2010'''
+
+'''Title:''' Scalable, Extensible, and Safe Monitoring of GENI Clusters
+
+'''Authors:'''  Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University; Puneet Sharma, HP Labs
+
+== I. Major accomplishments ==
+
+=== A. Milestones achieved === 
+
+The initial version of our design document was completed.  The initial
+version of our implementation was completed, and demonstrated at the
+seventh GENI Engineering Conference (GEC7).
+
+=== B. Deliverables made === 
+
+ * Design Document of Scalable, Extensible, and Safe Monitoring of GENI Clusters, January 2010. http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/ScalableMonitoring/design.pdf
+
+ * Sensor pod implementation, February 2010. E-mailed to Vic Thomas.
+
+ * During GEC7 in March 2010, Puneet Sharma gave presentations about the project at the ProtoGENI cluster meeting. http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/Gec7ClusterCAgenda
+
+ * Puneet Sharma, Ethan Blanton and Sriharsha Gangam also participated in the meeting of the measurements working group: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GEC7InstMeasWGAgenda
+
+ * In addition, Puneet Sharma, Ethan Blanton and Sriharsha Gangam demonstrated and presented a poster on the project during the evening demo session.
+
+== II. Description of work performed during last quarter == 
+
+=== A. Activities and findings ===
+
+We have ported the sensor pods onto the ProtoGENI platform.  A sensor
+pod is a web-service-enabled collection of light-weight measurement
+and monitoring sensors that collect information at a machine. This
+information spans network properties such as connectivity to the
+Internet, latency to some other machine in the system, and bandwidth
+to another machine.  The sensors gather information actively (e.g.,
+send some packets on a network link to detect available bandwidth) and
+possibly passively.  Sensor pods are being implemented as cgi scripts
+accessible through any web-server that supports cgi.  To enable
+large-scale concurrent measurements, we had to modify some of the
+measurement tools.  We leverage the web-services-based sensing pod
+architecture to deploy various sensors measuring different metrics and
+also to configure measurements. We currently support ping, traceroute,
+pathrate, tulip and spruce.
+
+Puneet Sharma gave a presentation of our design document during the
+ProtoGENI phone conference held on Wednesday February 24th, 2010.
+We also gave several demos of the project during GEC7.
+
+=== B. Project participants === 
+
+Sonia Fahmy, Sriharsha Gangam, Ethan Blanton, Purdue University
+Puneet Sharma, Prakash Kumar Malligemane, HP Labs
+
+Unfortunately, Purdue University and HP were unable to arrive at a
+mutually agreeable subcontract, and hence HP will subcontract directly
+from BBN.
+
+=== C. Publications (individual and organizational)  ===
+
+Sriharsha Gangam, Sonia Fahmy, ``Distributed Partial Inference under
+Churn,'' In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Internet Symposium, 6 pp.,
+March 2010.
+
+Ethan Blanton, Sonia Fahmy, Greg N. Frederickson, Sriharsha Gangam,
+``On the Cost of Network Inference Mechanisms,'' IEEE Transactions on
+Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 14 pp., accepted for
+publication.
+
+The following publication from HP is under submission: 
+On Correlations between Capacity and Available Bandwidth.
+
+
+=== D. Outreach activities ===
+
+Sonia Fahmy discussed the project with several participants attending
+IEEE INFOCOM (the conference on computer communications) in March
+2010, and gave a related talk titled ``Evaluation: Finding your
+Balance,'' in the panel titled ``From Shannon to Google.''
+
+Sriharsha Gangam presented a poster about the project at the Purdue
+University graduate student poster session in March 2010. 
+
+Sonia Fahmy served on the technical program committee (TPC) of
+SIGMETRICS 2010, and reviewed several measurement and testbed-related
+papers.  Puneet Sharma served on the TPC of COMSNETS 2010 and reviewed
+several measurement architecture-related papers.
+
+=== E. Collaborations ===
+
+We participated in all bi-weekly Cluster C conference calls held since
+January 2010.
+
+During the seventh GENI Engineering Conference, we discussed the
+project with other measurement projects that started in spiral 2 and
+those that had started in spiral 1. We discussed common aspects with
+the teams from University of Kentucky, University of Wisconsin, and
+the Ohio State University.
+
+=== F. Other Contributions ===