= S3MONITOR Project Status Report =

Period:  March 2011 to July 2011

Title: Scalable, Extensible, and Safe Monitoring of GENI Clusters

Authors:

Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University [[BR]]
Puneet Sharma, HP Labs

== I. Major accomplishments ==

=== A. Milestones achieved ===

We are finalizing a new version of the Scalable Sensing Service system
with extensible ("pluggable") sensors and the notion of "groups." The version also
includes other small improvements. It was demonstrated at GEC 11.

We are finalizing the Specifications and Integration Plan document
and plan to release it shortly with the new software.

We released the revised User guide and Installation guide.


=== B. Deliverables made ===

The user guide was released and is available at:
http://mirage.hpl.hp.com/s3monitor/doc/s3monitor-userguide.pdf

The installation guide was released and is available at:
http://mirage.hpl.hp.com/s3monitor/doc/s3monitor-installationguide.pdf

During GEC 11 in July 2011, Sonia Fahmy and Ethan Blanton participated
in the meeting of the measurements working group. Sumit Kala gave a demo
during the GEC evening poster session, and the group presented a poster.
The poster can be found at:
http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/ScalableMonitoring/gec11-onepage.pdf


== II. Description of work performed since last report ==

=== A. Activities and findings ===

We installed a bug tracker at http://s3trac.cs.purdue.edu/trac/login
so that the GENI project office, other GENI projects, and our own team
members can report bugs and we can report when they are
resolved. We have been using the system and resolving reported bugs.

We revised the installation guide and user guides.

We are planning integration with the instrumentation tools
and measurement data archive projects. We are developing a
specifications and integration plan document.


=== B. Project participants ===

Sonia Fahmy, Ethan Blanton, Sriharsha Gangam, Purdue University [[BR]]
Puneet Sharma, HP Labs [[BR]]
Sumit Kala, Sarbajit Chatterjee, Nagarjuna Reddy Chevuru, Deepti Sharma, HP

=== C. Publications (individual and organizational) ===

1. "Mitigating Interference in a Network Measurement Service," Sriharsha
Gangam, Sonia Fahmy, In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Workshop
on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 9 pp., June 2011.

2. "On the Cost of Network Inference Mechanisms," Ethan Blanton, Sonia
Fahmy, Greg N. Frederickson, Sriharsha Gangam, IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 14 pp., April 2011.


=== D. Outreach activities ===

Sonia Fahmy is serving as an Area TPC chair for INFOCOM 2012, and ICNP
2011. She served on TPC of CSET 2011.  Puneet Sharma is serving on
the ICNP 2011 TPC, and is the co-Chair of the Energy Efficient
Networking Track at IEEE ICCCN 2011.

Sriharsha Gangam attended IWQoS in San Jose, CA, in June 2011, and presented the paper mentioned in C
above.


=== E. Collaborations ===

We participated in almost all bi-weekly ProtoGENI conference calls
held since January 2010. 

We participated in the I&M working group call held in July 2011.

During GEC 11, Sonia Fahmy, Ethan Blanton, and Sumit Kala had several
interactions and discussions with potential collaborators for
integration and deployment of S3Monitor in other GENI projects.

=== F. Other Contributions ===