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  1. Deployment: Faran
    1. Look into Mathematics of Singular Vector Decomposition technique. (agreed 11/16/06): Faran
  2. Visualization
    1. Wiki Markup
      -Make tables sortable (working on 5/25/06, re-agreed 8/3/06, re-requested 8/21/06, done for the RTTs 8/22/06, can we do with buttons for all columns, agreed 2/27/07) \[Done 3/22/07\]: Faran-
    2. Provide documentation (in progress 2/27/07, documented maths of selection 3/20/07, needs updating, agreed to update 3/22/07): Farhan, Faran
    3. Can we add AS's to routes: Yee, Faran
    4. DiscoveryStatistics =>LandMark Analysis one gets SLAC with RTT 0.0 regardless (reported 3/20/07): Faran
    5. Wiki Markup
      -If ping fails in Looking Glass Sites it shows as \-5.0 RTT, should show as NAN (agreed 3/5/07, re-reported 3/20/07) \[Done 3/22/07\]: Faran-
    6. When one double clicks on a row in Ping Results and the ping fails (e.g. host not responding) nothing shows in the  pop-up window. I think some diagnostic  or something should show (reported 3/20/07, re-reported 3/9/07 try Umich shows NAN for http://gate01.aglt2.org/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=ping&target=203.99.50.204): Faran
    7. Sites.txt
      1. Add diagnostic to Sites.txt to identify bad formatting: Faran
      2. Allow alpha to change (lot of work, many changes, will improve greatly, changes design, Faran focussing on 4/12/07)
        1. Change Sites.txt to add extra column for alpha (done at NIIT): Faran
        2. Look at using PingER historical data to optimize alpha (agreed 4/12/07): Faran
      3. Make project to provide a u user interface to Sites.txt (Adnan may have a student from his presentation)
      4. Make Sites.txt not available from the web (the URL in http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/tulip/ is no longer an active URL, however the file is still accessible from teh web, need to work with Faran to move it): Les, Faran
    8. When zooming maintain size of dots (Faran will propose to Umar as a student project 4/10/07, he is concerned about teh download time, Asif suggests using NASA images for Java platform, will send link 4/12/07):  Faran
  3. Evaluate whether using traceroute data helps (Suggested by Umar & Les 2/26/07): Faran
  4. Landmarks
    1. Get more landmarks for TULIP:
      1. China (sent email to ctsnet 7/26/06, reminded 12/6/06, 1/27/07): Les
      2. Try and get sites in Africa (Les sent email 11/28/06): Les
      3. COMTEC, Japan (Faran send email reminder 5/25/06, agreed to send another reminder 6/7/06, Umar will check with Farooq 11/16/06, Umar sent email reminders, latest 4/7/07, Farooq has been sick and unable to communicate, we need an account there 4/12/07): Faran, Farooq
        1. Account - tuliplandmark - is available at 'ias.comtec.co.jp' Faran will configure the webserver and deploy the scripts for both TULIP and PingER. (Umar will make an attempt to do the same).
      4. Add traceroute/Looking Glass servers in critical areas, if they have a common format (asked for 11/15/06, Les did a manual look at traceroute.org and found about 20 potential landmarks 11/17/06, Faran not clear if one can automate 2/27/07, several are automateable, to prove it Les has added 8, Faran will work on, re-requested 3/26/07 with suggestions): Faran
      5. Get site in Korea (made contact, test case works, suggest case study on S.E. Asia, contacted Prof waiting to hear back 4/12/07): Umar
    2. Add NetDiGi route servers (asked for 8/30/06, is able to parse them, will look at adding appropriate hosts 3/22/07): Faran
    3. Wiki Markup
      -Modify TULIP to resolve names to IP addresses before calling landmarks \[Done 4/10/07\]: Faran-
    4. Brunsvigia appears not to accept names (sent email to S. Africa with what is broken 3/26/07, asked again 4/10/07, RESENT 4/30/07): Les
    5. sfsmds2.nsnl.net not responding (sent email 4/12/07, started responding but hostname incorrect, tried to fix now not responding 4/29/07, senr email): Les
  5. Apply to PingER node database to check the lat/longs are roughly correct (tried with 300-400 sites but cannnot get results due to fragile Internet at NIIT, will interact with Akbar to make tests at SLAC 8/31/06, exchanged emails on list of PingER hosts to locate 9/3/06): Faran
  6. Analysis
    1. Literature search on triangulation, multi-lateration: Faran
    2. Wiki Markup
      -Measure landmarks from landmarks \[Done 2/15/07\]: Faran-
    3. Optimize alpha by landmark (after have new location algorithm working, will try 1:2 for US, 1:3 for Europe, 2:15 Africa, done at NIIT, need to deploy at SLAC 4/10/07) : Faran
    4. Document Faran's algorithm, try new algorithm that does not require destination to be inside triangle: Faran, Umar
    5. Analyse the effect of passing IP addresses to landmarks rather than names: Faran
    6. Look at impact of increasing number of pings for getting accurate min_RTT (Faran measured for a few sites, Les gave ideas on how to extend and analyze for multiple sites, could be a major project 4/4/07): Faran
    7. Compare with GeoIP Tools
    8. For US compare Faran's algorithm with Octant (no longer available 2/27/07), GeoIP & simple triangulation for PingER hosts(in progress 2/1/07)
      1. Confidence estimates
      2. Applied to PingER hosts
      3. Outside triangles, area coverage
      4. Effect/need to vary alpha: Faran
      5. Look at big discrepancies
  7. Analysis of Accuracy and applicability
    1. Accuracy vs known locations (landmarks & PingER hosts): faran
    2. Effect of removing, adding landmarks, try for Bolivia: Faran
    3. Provide bubble maps of accuracy: Faran
    4. What area/population is covered by TULIP
    5. Document anomalies  (e.g. root-servers): Faran
    6. Show accuracy by region and country: Faran
    7. Come up with a way to estimate the accuracy/confidence of estimates: Faran
      1. Document in the TULIP web page: Faran
  8. Find out more about GeoIP Tools
    1. Wiki Markup
      Find a case where TULIP beats GeoIP Tool \[Done 4.68.116.16, probably backbone routers too\]:

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