Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of DTunnels-2Q09-status

Timestamp:

09/10/09 20:11:01 (15 years ago)

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feamster@cc.gatech.edu

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+= DTunnels Project Status Report: 2Q09 =
+
+== 1. Major accomplishments ==
+
+This report covers activity from April 1 to June 30, 2009.
+
+=== 1.1 Milestones achieved ===
+
+We have achieved the following four milestones:
+
+  * DTunnel: BGP mux operations with PSGnet (Completed late 05/22/09)
+
+== 2. Description of work performed during last quarter ==
+
+=== 2.1 Activities and findings ===
+
+Our activities and findings include the following:
+
+
+  * '''Deployment of BGP Mux at Additional Sites: PSGNet.''' With the
+  help of Randy Bust at PSGNet, we have deployed a
+  BGP Mux that has a direct layer 2 connection (via a VLAN) to the
+  Wisconsin border router and can announce a /21 IP prefix via
+  Wisconsin's upstream providers.  Currently, we are unable to announce
+  any prefix from this location because Randy has not updated his
+  filters to allow our prefix announcements.  This prompted us to update
+  the IRR (below), but he has not yet updated his filters accordingly.
+
+  * '''Registration of Route Objects at ARIN IRR.''' To ensure that the
+    IP prefix can be announced from different upstream ISPs, we
+    registered the both our temporary IP prefix and the GENI AS number
+    (AS~47065) in the ARIN Internet routing registry. 
+
+  * '''Georgia Tech campus GENI network deployment.''' We continue to
+    build a campus network deployment that can run enterprise-level
+    experiments and use the BGP Mux as a means of getting upstream
+    connectivity to and from these upstream ISPs.
+
+'''Continued work on ongoing issues:'''
+
+  * '''Integration of topology creation with upstream connectivity.'''
+    We are working on developing a unified set of scripts or topology
+    creation and creation of upstream connectivity.
+
+
+=== 2.2 Project participants ===
+
+Professor Nick Feamster: PI[[BR]]
+Vytautas Valancius: BGP Mux lead developer[[BR]]
+Yogesh Mundada: DTunnels lead developer[[BR]]
+[Both Valancius and Mundada are Ph.D. students at Georgia Tech.]
+
+=== 2.3 Publications (individual and organizational) ===
+
+We published a writeup describing a demonstration of the BGP Mux and
+associated applications that could be run using the BGP Mux to SIGCOMM
+2009:
+
+   ''Transit Portal: Bringing Connectivity to the Cloud''[[BR]]
+   Vytautas Valancius, Yogesh Mundada, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford,
+   Akihiro Nakao
+
+This writeup is available on the project wiki.
+
+=== 2.4 Outreach activities ===
+
+
+None during this period.
+
+=== 2.5 Collaborations ===
+
+  * '''Princeton University''' We are collaborating with Princeton on
+  virtual network applications that can make use of the BGP session
+  multiplexer.  Notably, we have helped Princeton undergraduate student
+  Patrick Wendell (working with Jennifer Rexford) to deploy an initial
+  service that uses the BGP Mux.
+
+  * '''University of Tokyo''' We are collaborating with University of
+  Tokyo in an attempt to deploy the BGP Mux in that location.  Graduate
+  student Valas Valancius spent summer in Tokyo working with this team.
+
+We have a planned collaboration with Jerry Sobieski at NordUNet planned
+for 4Q 2009.
+
+
+
+=== 2.6 Other Contributions ===
+
+'''Testbed Network''' We are building out a campus network testbed for
+testing both DTunnels topology creation and BGP Mux on the campus
+network.  The test network spans three buildings on campus and includes
+roughly ten servers and five OpenFlow-enabled switches.  Although this
+testbed deployment is technically out of the scope of the original
+proposal, we intend to use it as a platform for using both BGP Mux and
+the DTunnels topology creation service.
+
+Progress on this testbed during 2Q 2009 included deployment of several
+switches in one building on campus and provisioning of VLANs and fiber.