| 1 | = S3MONITOR Project Status Report = |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Period: Fourth quarter 2009 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Title: Scalable, Extensible, and Safe Monitoring of GENI Clusters |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Authors: |
| 8 | Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University [[BR]] |
| 9 | Puneet Sharma, HP Labs |
| 10 | |
| 11 | == Major accomplishments == |
| 12 | |
| 13 | === Milestones achieved === |
| 14 | |
| 15 | The Purdue contract with BBN was finalized on November 30th, 2009, and |
| 16 | the first milestones and deliverables stated in the contract are |
| 17 | scheduled for January 2010. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | We are currently developing the system design document, and |
| 20 | investigating how to port the Scalable Sensing Service onto the |
| 21 | ProtoGENI platform. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | === Deliverables made === |
| 24 | |
| 25 | During the sixth GENI Engineering Conference, held in Salt Lake City, |
| 26 | Utah, Sonia Fahmy gave three presentations about the project: |
| 27 | |
| 28 | ProtoGENI cluster meeting |
| 29 | http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/Gec6ClusterCMondaySlides |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Experiment Workflow and Services working group |
| 32 | http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GEC6ServicesWGAgenda |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Measurements working group |
| 35 | http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GEC6InstMeasWGAgenda |
| 36 | |
| 37 | |
| 38 | == Description of work performed during last quarter == |
| 39 | |
| 40 | === Activities and findings === |
| 41 | |
| 42 | We are currently investigating the porting of sensor pods onto the |
| 43 | ProtoGENI platform. A sensor pod is a web-service enabled collection |
| 44 | of lightweight measurement and monitoring sensors that collect |
| 45 | information at a machine. This information spans both network |
| 46 | properties such as network connectivity, latency to some other machine |
| 47 | in the system, bandwidth to another machine, and machine attributes. |
| 48 | These sensors gather information actively (e.g., send some packets on |
| 49 | a network link to detect available bandwidth) or passively. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | The project PIs Sonia Fahmy and Puneet Sharma held telephone calls to |
| 52 | discuss how to extend sensor pods and port them to ProtoGENI. The PIs |
| 53 | also held a conference call with Robert Ricci to discuss challenges |
| 54 | with integration with ProtoGENI. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | === Project participants === |
| 57 | |
| 58 | Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University |
| 59 | Puneet Sharma, HP Labs |
| 60 | |
| 61 | A graduate student at Purdue University will join the project in |
| 62 | January 2010. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | While the subcontract with HP is still being negotiated, Puneet Sharma |
| 65 | has started reviewing resumes for an additional participant in the |
| 66 | project, with an anticipated start date in early January 2010. This |
| 67 | participant will help port the scalable sensing service measurement |
| 68 | pod to ProtoGENI. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | |
| 71 | === Publications (individual and organizational) === |
| 72 | |
| 73 | The following publication which is under revision is related to this |
| 74 | project: |
| 75 | |
| 76 | On the Cost of Network Inference Mechanisms, by Ethan Blanton, Sonia |
| 77 | Fahmy, Greg N. Frederickson, Sriharsha Gangam, under revision for |
| 78 | publication in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | The following publication from HP is under submission for review: |
| 81 | |
| 82 | On Correlations between Capacity and Available Bandwidth. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | |
| 85 | === Outreach activities === |
| 86 | |
| 87 | Sonia Fahmy discussed the project with participants attending the IEEE |
| 88 | International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2009, and the |
| 89 | Computer Communication Workshop (CCW) 2009, both held in October 2009. |
| 90 | |
| 91 | Sonia Fahmy also served on the technical program committees (TPCs) of |
| 92 | SIGMETRICS 2010 and INFOCOM 2010, and reviewed several measurement |
| 93 | and testbed-related papers. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | Puneet Sharma served on the TPC of COMSNETS 2010 and reviewed several |
| 96 | measurement architecture-related papers. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | |
| 99 | === Collaborations === |
| 100 | |
| 101 | During the sixth GENI Engineering Conference, held in Salt Lake City, |
| 102 | Utah, we discussed the project with other measurement projects that |
| 103 | started in spiral 2 and those that had started in spiral 1. We |
| 104 | discussed common aspects with the teams from University of Kentucky, |
| 105 | University of Wisconsin, and the Ohio State University. We also |
| 106 | discussed the project with additional ProtoGENI teams, including the |
| 107 | team from University of Washington. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | |
| 110 | === Other Contributions === |