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NetKarma

Report for the period ending GEC13

Beth Plale, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Chris Small, InCNTRE, Indiana University

Summary

Milestones Delivered

S4.c Provenance System Demo; I&M Contributions

NetKarma Tutorial and Demo

At GEC14 we presented a tutorial of the NetKarma Portal which is layered on top of the NetKarma server as well as NetKarma plug-ins for visualizing large provenance graphs. After first providing participants with an overview of what provenance is and how it can be beneficial to GENI experimenters, the tutorial continued with three hands-on components that allowed GENI experimenters to capture provenance, ingest and visualize provenance in the NetKarma Portal, and download provenance graphs from the portal for visualization in Cytoscape using the GENI NetKarma plug-ins.

The tutorial first walked the participants through an experiment using Emulab ProtoGENI resources to run an experiment doing a GridFTP transfer based on the eXtensible Session Protocol (XSP). Since the focus was on provenance generation, the resources had already been requested and configured, and the participants ran scripts loaded in the tutorial VM on VirtualBox to run the experiment – generating a log from the XSP experiment, some basic bandwidth measurements using iperf, and downloading the manifest for the resources they are using. The NetKarma adaptor which is incorporated into the NetKarma portal used these two log files and the manifest in the second hands-on portion of the tutorial to extract provenance and load it into NetKarma through the Portal.

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The third hands-on portion of the tutorial showed participants how they can easily download a provenance graph generated by NetKarma from the Portal. The downloaded graph is an XML file based on the Open Provenance Model (OPM) standard for provenance. For very large provenance graphs, the NetKarma plug-in can be used to visualize and explore large provenance graphs using the desktop version of Cytoscape (the web version of cytoscape is used in the Portal). In this section participants downloaded provenance graphs for experiments we had run on both NS2 and ORBIT and loaded into the portal using the corresponding NetKarma adaptors. The provenance graphs for these experiments differ from the XSP experiment in that whereas the adaptor for the XSP experiment uses the manifest to incorporate the topology of the experiment into the provenance graph, the focus of the NS2 and ORBIT adaptors is on capturing the success of each packet transferred. This focus on the packet level results in large provenance graphs, but as participants were able to experience by loading the graphs for both experiments into the copy of Cytoscape included in the tutorial VM, they could quickly see the performance of NS2 and ORBIT experiments as to packets successfully transferred or dropped by using visualization capabilities included in the NetKarma plug-in.

The full instructions, including step-by-step graphics and illustrations of the provenance generation, Portal, and visualization process are included in the tutorial instructions available at: http://d2i.indiana.edu/wiki/NetKarma_Tutorial

During the Demo session at GEC14 we also presented a live demo that followed up on our tutorial to show the latest version of the NetKarma portal, the visualization of an ORBIT experiment using the latest version of the NetKarma visualization plug-in for Cytoscape, and the propsed MDOD schema with NetKarma provenance.

NetKarma and the Measurement Data Object Descriptor (MDOD)

Following up on our proposed changes to the MDOD at GEC13 and subsequent discussions, we presented an XML schema of our proposed MDOD that was shared with the Measurement & Instrumentation group to stimulate discussion and we presented a poster at the GEC14 Demo session along with the schema and an example based on the XSP experiment used in the tutorial. The schema is discussed further in the sectin below on work performed this quarter. At GEC14, we also participated in the follow-on discussion Wednesday afternoon regarding next steps for the MDOD which was hosted by Harry Mussman and Jeanne Ohren of BBN. The proposed MDOD schema, supporting schemas, and the example based on the XSP experiment are included below in the documents section.

Work Performed this Quarter

NetKarma Portal

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NetKarma Visualization and Adaptor Enhancements Building on the work we presented at the GEC13 demo session on visualizing the provenance of experiments run on NS2, for GEC14 we developed an Adaptor for ingesting information from WiMAX experiments run on ORBIT and generating a provenance graph through NetKarma based on the Open Provenance Model (OPM) standard. Since the NS2 experiment is running in a simulated environment, we were able to capture the provenance of each packet and whether it was successfully received or dropped. In the ORBIT environment, such complete information is not available - we can determine what packets were sent, but not at a packet level which were successfully received and which were dropped.

Two of the goals of NetKarma are to: (1) provide experimenters with the provenance of their experiment based on the events that occurred in their experiment, and (2) to capture provenance while minimizing the additional instrumentation needed in an experiment to capture provenance; ideally with no additional instrumentation. For ORBIT experiments run using the ORBIT traffic generator (OTG), the NetKarma adaptor can capture provenance wiht no additional instrumentation as illustrated in the following diagram.

As seen in this diagram, the provenance of an experiment run on ORBIT can be captured in NetKarma using the ORBIT NetKarma adaptor that ingests data that is already generated as part of the experiment. This includes: (1) the script for the ORBIT experiment, (2) data retrieved using the OMF interface's "info" and "list clients" methods, and (3) data retrieved from the OML database. The adaptor combines these data sources to generate event notification messages that are sent to the NetKarma server, where they are combined to create the annotated OPM graph for the experiment.

The provenance graph displayed in the above image is based on the “Many-to-One Communication” example in the OTG tutorial. This experiment consists of seven senders and a single receiver. In this experiment we varied the size and the rate of the packets sent by each of the senders. The experiment was run on GENI ORBIT resources at Rutgers University and is displayed using the NetKarma visualization plug-in for the Cytoscape visualization tool. As with other provenance graphs captured in NetKarma, the plug-in tool loads an OPM graph from Karma and converts the OPM XML file into a Cytoscape visualization.

The Plug-in has been enhanced to include an ORBIT visualization style that can be applied to color-code the packets sent and received based on the origin (in this example, which of the seven OTG nodes sent the packet). In this visualization we can see that the OTR receiver node in the upper left corner received packets only from two of the nodes since all of the packets received are colored either yellow or green to correspond with the OTG node that sent them. Zooming in, experimenters can review the metadata annotations for each packet or node that had been harvested by the NetKarma Adaptor as shown in the following screen capture:

The provenance graph for the above illustration is available here or can be downloaded from the NetKarma Portal (as participants did in the NetKarma tutorial at GEC14). The ORBIT visualization style which color-codes the nodes in the provenance graph based on their origin is included in the latest Netkarma plug-in source code which is available from the Karma SourceForge page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/karmatool/

Capturing the Provenance of an XSP Experiment

Proposed MDOD Schema Integrating Provenance

Project Participants

During this period, active participants in the NetKarma project included: Beth Plale and Chris Small, as well as Scott Jensen, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Data To Insight Center, and students Peng Chen, Devarshi Ghoshal, and Yuan Luo. Robert Ping provided project management for the project.

Collaborations

  • Katherine Cameron (Clemson University) – ORBIT experiments on DDoS attacks and ORBIT configuration
  • Nilanjan Paul (Rutgers) – ORBIT experiment configuration
  • Fraida Fund (NYU-Poly WITest Lab) ORBIT reservation system
  • Martin Swany (Indiana University) and Ezra Kissel (University of Delaware) – Discussion of measurement metadata capture in the MDOD. XSP-based experiment used in NetKarma tutorial
  • Harry Mussman (BBN) – Metadata capture for measurement data in the MDOD
  • Jeanne Ohren (BBN) – tutorial coordination and MDOD
  • Ahmet Babaoglu (North Carolina State University) capturing NetKarma notifications as events in IMF Messaging

Publications & Documents

Posters at the GEC14 Poster and Demo Session:

  • GENI Provenance, Instrumentation and Measurement: Integrating Provenance into the GENI Measurement Data Object Descriptor PDF

Step-by-Step Instructions for the NetKarma Tutorial at GEC14: http://d2i.indiana.edu/wiki/NetKarma_Tutorial

Slides from Presentation on NetKarma at the GEC14 Experimenter's Roundtable: slides

Proposed MDOD Schema for capturing the Metadata and Provenance of GENI Experiments: MDOD_Provenance_0.2.xsd

Supporting schemas imported into the proposed MDOD schema:

Sample MDOD example based on capturing the metadata and provenance for an XSP experiment as used in the NetKarma tutorial: SampleMDOD-XSP.xml

GENI Documents

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