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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, should it be a wiki? - Umar thinks good idea need Faran view 4/30/07): Farhan, Faran
    3. Can we add AS's to routes: Yee, Faran
    4. DiscoveryStatistics =>LandMark Analysis need to identify which Site number is displayed (i.e. from which window): 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 timeout) wrong host shows up in window (e.g. RNP instead of COMTEC) : 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. Look at using PingER historical data to optimize alpha (agreed 4/12/07): Faran
        2. Need a way to display alpha used: Faran
      3. Make project to provide a user interface (e.g. edit) to Sites.txt (Adnan may have a student from his presentation, normalizing students to understand their applicability to task 4/30/07)
    8. When zooming maintain size of dots (Faran will propose to Umar as a student project 4/10/07, he is concerned about the download time, Asif suggests using NASA images for Java platform, will send link 4/12/07):  Faran
  3. Bugs:
    1. Sort on min-RTT is alphabetic, should be numerical (reported 5/3/07): Faran
    2. Double click on line in Ping Results gives web page with wrong landmark.
  4. Evaluate whether using traceroute data helps (Suggested by Umar & Les 2/26/07): Faran
  5. 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
        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, needs root to start web server 4/30/07).
      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 at Ajou university (made contact, test case works, contacted Prof 4/12/07, sent detailed info/welcome email 5/1/07, hope to have web server by May 4th, Arshad may visit): 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
      1. Wiki Markup
        Find a case where TULIP beats GeoIP Tool \[Done 4.68.116.16, probably backbone routers too\]:
    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
  8. 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
  9. Look at publication (helps advance Faran's career and possibly "best project",  will need more analysis)
    1. Find conference: all
    2. Can we get Cisco interested?

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