= S3MONITOR Project Status Report =

Period:  November 2011 to March 2012

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

Authors:

Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University

== I. Major accomplishments ==


=== A. Milestones achieved ===

We have worked with the InstrumentationTools team to integrate the new version of the Scalable Sensing Service sensor pods with extensible ("pluggable") sensors into their system.
A demo of InstrumentationTools integrated with sensor pods can be viewed at:
http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/ScalableMonitoring/demo-subtitles.mp4 

We have completed the first programming exercise for graduate students using GENI.

=== B. Deliverables made ===

The extended InstrumentationTools that includes our sensor pods was demonstrated at GEC 13.
A demo of InstrumentationTools integrated with sensor pods can be viewed at:
http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/ScalableMonitoring/demo-subtitles.mp4

The first programming exercise for graduate students using GENI is complete.

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

=== A. Activities and findings ===

We have presented our work on the design and evaluation of the Scalable Sensing Service on GENI at COMSNETS 2012 (see C below), and our work on 
exercises for graduate students using GENI at GREE12 (see C below).

=== B. Project participants ===

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

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

Ethan Blanton, Sarbajit Chatterjee, Sriharsha Gangam, Sumit Kala, Deepti Sharma, Sonia Fahmy, Puneet Sharma.  "Design and Evaluation of the S3 Monitor Network Measurement Service on GENI." In the Proceedings of COMSNETS, 10 pp., January 2012.
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/fahmy/papers/comsnets.pdf 

Sriharsha Gangam, Ethan Blanton, Sonia Fahmy. "Exercises for Graduate Students using GENI." In Proceedings of the First GENI
Research and Educational Experiment Workshop (GREE12), 4 pp., March 2012.
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/fahmy/papers/geni-labs.pdf

=== D. Outreach activities ===

Sonia Fahmy is serving as an Area technical program committee (TPC) chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012. Puneet Sharma is serving on
the TPC of IEEE INFOCOM 2012.

Sonia Fahmy participated in the 13th GENI Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, CA, in March 2012, and presented 
the paper in C above at the First GENI Research and Educational Experiment Workshop (GREE12).

Puneet Sharma presented the paper in C above at the COMSNETS conference in January 2012 and discussed the work with conference participants.

=== E. Collaborations ===

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

During GEC 13, Sonia Fahmy had several interactions and discussions with PIs of other GENI projects, especially James Griffioen and Prasad Calyam.

=== F. Other Contributions ===