Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of S3Monitor-QSR-Jun10

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06/30/10 11:42:11 (14 years ago)

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Vic Thomas

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+= S3MONITOR Project Status Report =
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+Period:  Second quarter 2010
+
+Title: Scalable, Extensible, and Safe Monitoring of GENI Clusters
+
+Authors: Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University and Puneet Sharma, HP Labs
+
+== I. Major accomplishments ==
+
+=== A. Milestones achieved ===
+
+We have extended our implementation over the version demonstrated at
+the seventh GENI Engineering Conference (GEC 7).  The new version 0.2
+includes the Sensing Information Manager that allows researchers to
+invoke on-demand and periodic measurements. It also supports archiving
+the collected measurements in a database.
+
+We are also collaborating with other GENI measurement projects on the
+GENI I&M specification document as discussed below. 
+
+=== B. Deliverables made ===
+
+- We are finalizing version 0.2 of the system. We have registered for a demo and poster to present the system at GEC 8.
+
+- We are collaborating with several researchers on the GENI I&M specification document. This will be discussed at GEC 8. Sonia Fahmy is leading the team writing the GENI I&M interfaces and protocols (APIs) for service management, working with Vic Thomas (BBN/GPO), Ivan Seskar (Rutgers WINLAB), Max Ott (NICTA), and Giridhar Manepalli
+(CNRI). Puneet Sharma is collaborating with Jeremy Reed from
+U. Kentucky and Guilherme Fernandes from U. Delaware on the section on GUIs.
+
+- During the GENI measurement workshop on June 8-9, 2010, Sonia Fahmy
+and Puneet Sharma discussed the project extensively with researchers
+working on other measurement projects especially the teams from OSU,
+CNRI, and U Kentucky.
+
+== II. Description of work performed during last quarter ==
+
+=== A. Activities and findings ===
+
+We have continued to extend the sensor pod implementation for the
+ProtoGENI platform, and made several changes to adapt to ProtoGENI
+upgrades.  We are also implementing the sensing information manager.  
+
+The 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.
+
+The sensing information manager is a data aggregation and management
+middleware that collects measurement data from the individual sensor
+pods on physical machines in the system, and provides a programmable
+substrate for application services to aggregate the data in an
+efficient and scalable manner.  
+
+=== B. Project participants ===
+
+Sonia Fahmy, Sriharsha Gangam, Ethan Blanton, Ravish Khosla, Purdue University [[BR]]
+Puneet Sharma, Prakash Kumar Malligemane, HP Labs
+
+Note: HP will be subcontracting directly from BBN.
+
+=== C. Publications (individual and organizational) ===
+
+"Leveraging Correlations Between Capacity and Available Bandwidth To
+Scale Network Monitoring", Praveen Yalagandula, Sung-Ju Lee, Puneet
+Sharma, Sujata Banerjee, In Proceedings of IEEE !GlobeCom 2010,
+accepted for publication.
+
+"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., accepted for
+publication.
+
+=== D. Outreach activities ===
+
+Sonia Fahmy is serving as the technical program committee (TPC) chair
+of ICNP 2010.  Puneet Sharma is serving on the TPC of ICNP 2010 and
+reviewed several measurement architecture-related papers in
+May/June 2010.
+
+=== E. Collaborations ===
+
+We participated in all bi-weekly Cluster C conference calls held since
+January 2010.
+
+During the GENI measurement workshop held in Chicago on June 8-9, we
+discussed our project with measurement projects that started in
+both spirals 1 and 2, as discussed above.
+
+=== F. Other Contributions ===
+
+
+