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Maggie-NS Tasklist

NEXT MEETING: 9:00 AM California, USA Time, May 31, VRVS or Skype video (in Les' directory under Umar), call +1 92 321 9830406 or Arshad 92-51-928-0443 or Umar  9 011 92-333-535-3672 (cell)

Team members: Abdullah*, Adnan, Ahmad*, Azher, Fahad*, Faran*, Nouman*, Qasim*, Umar*

Akbar*, Arshad, Asif, Les*, Shahryar*, Yee

Mailing lists: maggie-niit@ns.niit.edu.pk; backup: maggie-niit@googlegroups.com

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Action Items

PingER: Shahryar, Umar Khan, Les

  1. PingER web services: ?
    1. PingER & AMP Integration (AMP/NLANR has run out of funding, AMP will shut down 8/31/06. Given the demise of AMP this may need to be changed to integration with PerfSONAR, on the other hand it may be useful for converting from the perfSONAT MP/MA format to PingER): Abdullah
      1. Document work with AMP integration (hope to complete 11/18/06, look at using Perldoc): Abdullah
      2. Extend to provide perfSONAR data reading front end (awaits perfSONAR): Abdullah, Asif
      3. Install & integrate code at SLAC: Abdullah
      4. Improve code, make production quality, automate getting data (requested with suggestions 8/20/06, making progress hope to be done in 3-4 days 8/31/06, sent back to SLAC, SLAC responded further formatting etc. improvements needed 9/12/06, we need to either finish this up or say Abdullah is not going to do it 3/20/07, Abdullah agreed to complete and send 3/22/07, Abdullah sent code but it needs indenting and some example documentation mail sent to Abdullah 4/4/07, Abdullah will have the code ready  by 5/3/07, code provided 5/10/07, indentation and commenting need work)
        1. Enable user to specify AMP host an option with a sensible default (has provided 2 files one for local one for dynamic, i.e. go to amp)
        2. Comment what hosts work
        3. Deploy at SLAC
      2. Integrate with pingtable.pl: Abdullah
        1. Create AMP file directory:
        2. Set up daily crontab: 
        3. Add src & dst amp nodes to Guthrie:
        4. AMP and Pinger data comparison: Abdullah
    2. Smokeping & PingER Integration: Shahryar (Asma is no longer working on this)
      1. Install at SLAC: Shahryar
        1. Installation on test www-dev test server : Shahryar, Les
        2. Carried out detail performance analysis of the code. Tried to make the code run faster, by eliminating unecessary instructions. The details of the performance analysis can be found at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/PingER+Smokeping+Integration. We have decide it to run for SLAC only hosts in order to test it for the time being. The results of the analysis shows that it takes 2 hours on average to update all the (536 SLAC to rest of the world RRDs) and will consume approximately 250 MB of disk space.
        3. The generation and presentation of the Smokeping graphs works
      2. Look at adding visualization of uptime (Umar will check with Asma about uptime 4/30/07): Shahryar, Asma
      3. Will use as a top level access to PingER and also as links from Pingtable to display last 120 days using smokeping: Shahryar
      4. Can/should we monitor display uptime (communicating with Asma 5/1/07, Asma answered): Umar, Asma, Shahryar
      5. Need to deploy the code on www-wanmon
    3. Provide real time access to cached data (needs assigning as project)
      1. Do for SLAC
        1. Decide on how to extend to other monitoring sites, try with NIIT:
    4. Ping-data.pl form only shows beacons.
      1. Need to point $sites_fn to pinger.xml instead of beacons.txt & check if the file is xml or flat (for backward compatibility): Shahryar
    5. Case Studies
      1. Case study for E. Asia to be led by Ajou university: Umar

        1. Send China information to Umar [Done 5/10/07]: Les

        2. Send Taiwan information to Umar [Done 5/10/07]: les

        3. Invite Taiwan to be a PingER monitoring host (sent email 5/10/07): Les
    2. Monitoring Hosts:
      1. Pakistan hosts

Triangulate position of an unknown host (see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/tulip,Faran Faran expects to be able to devote more effort to this following 25th Jan 2007): Faran, Les

  1. Deployment: Faran
    1. Look into Mathematics of Singular Vector Decomposition technique. (agreed 11/16/06): Faran
  2. Visualization
    1. 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, Faran agrees 5/10/07): Farhan, Faran
    2. Can we add AS's to routes: Yee, Faran
    3. DiscoveryStatistics =>LandMark Analysis need to identify which Site number is displayed (i.e. from which window): Faran
    4. 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, need progress)
        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 (will complete 5/11/07): Faran
    5. 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, assigned to Rehan 5/10/07):  Faran, Rehan
  3. Bugs:
  4. Evaluate whether using traceroute data helps (Suggested by Umar & Les 2/26/07, could add 3 more RTTs to minimize from): Faran
  5. Landmarks
    1. Get more landmarks for TULIP, ideally need at least one landmark in all major developing countries that do not have direct connections to nearby countries.:
      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. Need to add site to Sites.txt (5/2/07): Faran
      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 is having problems with blocking aftrer several accesses, will get a list then will try and contact to open up 5/10/07): Faran
      5. Get site in Korea at Ajou university (trying to persuade 5/8/07): Umar
      6. Get site at KHU (server available, problems with permissions to open UDP sockets 5/8/07, Les ask Bartelt if there is some configuration setting in the web server 5/10/07): 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
  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, Shahryar sent information on how to access pingtable.pl data): Faran
  7. Analysis
    1. Literature search on triangulation, multi-lateration: Faran

    2. 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. 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 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. Provide bubble maps of accuracy: Faran
    3. What area/population is covered by TULIP
    4. Show accuracy by region and country: Faran
    5. 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?: Arshad, Faran
    3. Update documentation: Les, Faran
    4. Read paper at http://research.microsoft.com/%7Epadmanab/papers/sigcomm2001.pdf: Faran

 Terapaths Yee

  1. Netflow presentation (Yee sent project to Ahmad  http://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Netflow+Presentation+Frontend): Ahmad
  2. Akbar making progress in scoreboard and backend, complete 5/13/07).
  3. Ahmad has a n idea about the MSIE browser problem
  4. Ahmad wants Netflow JS scripy documentation from Yee.
  5. Shahryar will send doccy on spider & pie charts
  6. Yee will get account for Ahmad at BNL
  7. Ahmad needs specific project from Yee

NETRAT, SLAC Contact: Adnan, Les, Umar interested

  1. Evaluate PCA multivariate method of Crovella: Waqar, Adnan,
    1. Compare PCA results with Holt-Winters/plateau: Adnan
      1. Fetch Data From SLAC, BNL, CALTECH (Pathchirp, Thrulay, Ping): Adnan
      2. Fetch data from CERN
      3. Apply PCA on same data and to get potential alerts: Adnan
      4. Comparison of Run-period results and PCA results: Adnan
      5. Improve event detector: Adnan
      6. Docment findings on PCA: Adnan
  2. Forecasting comparison of Active vs. passive data: Fareena, Adnan
    1. Look at eview implementation of ARIMA (QU has copy): Fareena
      1. Extend to more sites/metrics, see need for Integration & higher orders: Farena, Adnan
      2. Try with longer time base: Fareena
      3. Get time estimates : Fareena
    2. Detailed Graphs description: Fareena

    3. Regularization [Done]

    4. Look at moodss (http://jfontain.free.fr/statistics.htm): Fareena

    5. Send results/documentation to SLAC [Done 3/15/07]: Fareena

    6. Share documentation with COMSATS: Umar
    7. Review write up, and send changes by FAX to +92-51-9280782: Les
    8. Automate procedures
      1. Define project
      2. Put together presentation for workshop (for Sep 2006): Fareena
      3. Gather team
  3. Automatic event isolation: Adnan, Yee

IEPM

  1. Traceanal
    1. Get desk-side working to SLAC: Nauman, Azher, Umar
    2. Compress traceanal table by using image instead of HTML table (hope compleye by May 7) - Nouman, Asif
    3. Add node name in RH column
    4. Make nodename clickable to view ping time-series
    5. Add comment or help on how to find the real hostname
    6. Prepare distributable version of traceanal (assign to an NIIT student) - Asif, Yee
  2. Deploy at NIIT: Fahad
    1. Enter nodes at NIIT (nodes script showed errors with missing perl modules): Fahad
    2. Need to enter node iepm-maggie.niit.edu.pk at SLAC (Fahad will send how to Asif): Fahad
    3. Fahad is stuck with uninitialised variables $REPORTSDIR and $WEBPATH in report-nodes. Les sent details of how they are initialised at SLAC
    4. Enable Les to logon to iepm-maggie.niit.edu.pk, ssh lessc@iepm-maggie.niit.edu.pk fails: Fahan
    5. Asif & Fahan figure out iof Fahan needs write access to something at SLAC: Fahan, Asif
  3. Provide installation package: Tanzeel (QAU), Nauman
    1. Lot of co-dependencies
  4. Provide ViPER like interface to IEPM data: Fahad, Shahryar
    1. Problem with node visibility with FireFox (OK with MSIE 6): Fahad
    2. Need to understand how to get updates from iepm in real-time (try accessing URL from web browser): Fahad, Shahryar
      1. Formats for ping and traceroute are different (will have to work around): Fahad
      2. Write his own script which will access the data from IEPM-BW database or use Web Service which Asif will develop. So that historic data can be shown on the visualization

PerfSONAR

  1. Provide Google maps interface to PerfSONAR: Shahryar, Qasim (Qasim Bilal with us 6 months starting 3/22/07)

  2. Study the perfSONAR NMWG request/response schema [Done 5/1/07]: Qasim

  3. Output from some script (mtml.pm?) is unintelligible (e.g. control characters) need help from Asif, Nauman will send snapshot o Asif (5/10/07): Nauman
  4. Execute sample request queries for utilization and metadata from perfSONARUI: Qasim
  5. Needs trace route parsing code from Asif.
  6. Having Java socket error, maybe firewall problem

  7. New project description [Done 5/1/07]: Asif

Pathneck (see http://maggie.niit.edu.pk/website/projects/Topological_Analysis.html) Yee is the lead at the SLAC end: Asif

  1. Try and get pathneck working from NIIT, study debug output, work with Ningning <hnn@cs.cmu.edu> (awaits site upgrade): Asif
  2. Update production version at SLAC (12/106): Asif, Yee
  3. Develop and install pathneck reverse server (would like to start at NIIT just to assure code works work with -y option): Les, Asif
    1. Modularize security of traceroute.pl: Asif, Yee
    2. Add in PerfSonar: Asif, Yee
  4. Evaluate and understand how pathneck needs to be configured, the failure modes, the areas of applicability etc. using iepm-resp.slac.stanford.edu: Asif
    1. Provide web site documenting failure modes: Asif
  5. Develop a vizualization
    1. Topology (currently with Touchgraph), color links, mouseover ID router, provide snapshot
    2. Click on link/router to get graph
    3. Incorporate location (e.g. via TULIP)
  6. Need a schema
  7. Investigate integration with traceanal and graphviz: Asif
  8. Integrate topology map with pathneck: Asif
  9. Look at using PerfSONAR router information (do not agree well, need to get more statistics, to enable multiple measures need API to get PerfSONAR data, look perfsonar UI): Asif
  10. Try on Ultralight (problems if < 4 hops): Asif
  11. Problem of 0 results (reported to author but not much happening 4/20/06): Asif
  12. Add position and AS information to router database: Asif

Communications etc.

  1. Projects (see http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/projects/)
  2. Azher replacement for PERN, COMSATS, NIIT hosts (Ahmed, Siggiqui, Umar?)
  3. Resolve next graduates/visitors: Arshad, Les
    1. Get paperwork going
  4. Paper for Nepal (has been accepted): Shahryar
    1. Register at SLAC: Shahryar
    2. Update to right format and new figures: Shahryar
  5. CHEP
    1. Poster accepted 5/6/07
    2. Book hotel: Shahryar
    3. Write paper/poster
  6. Paper on event diagnosis (it has been accepted at San Jose, now need to prepare paper in camera ready form): Adnan

    1. It has been withdrawn [Done 4/20/07]: Adnan

    2. Future plans Needs improving): Adnan
      1. Get student: Adnan, Umar
    3. Decide if and who will present (Adnan is trying to get travel approval)### Register paper (SLAC willing to pay fee)
      1. Reformat paper in IEEE format
      2. Address most pertinent comments (no student available, nobody working on)
      3. Do we have another author
      4. Get copyright exemption
      5. Get length of paper and figure out extra pages cost, if any
      6. Submit final paper (by April 20)
      7. Write & present talk (July 1-6)
  7. SOFTEC prize publicity
    1. Get announcement & photos from SOFTEC
    2. Add to TULIP pages and SLAC network page
    3. Get in SLAC Today
  8. Visit of Rector?
  9. Proposals
    1. Develop new proposal with more a Grid Health viewpoint (Cisco raised issues, await resolution 3/22/07, talked to people who will supprt, now talking to Cisco. Hope for 100% from HEC, then Cisco chip in 4/12/07): Yee, Arshad, Les, Cisco
    2. Proposal to HEC needs reformatting in PC1 format: Umar
    3. USAID proposal due 6/30/07
    4. Proposal to Cisco on TULIP: Faran
    5. Proposal to Cisco on perfSONAR: Les
    6. World Bank may be able to fund travel
    7. Work with NSF to see if we submit to them: Les
      1. send NSF 1 page outline of proposal (Les & Yee are creating 4/12/07, done NSF cannot help)
    8. Proposal for perfSONAR for HEC (shown to Atta 3/15/07)
      1. Write up (working on Outline,  we have draft, been thru several iterations 4/10/07, Les needs to review section 5, Yee needs to read and comment, Ready to go needs Arshad to review 4/30/07): Umar

Wiki

  1. Create space for NIIT student reports and populate with initial reports - Yee, Les

  2. Umar has set one up at NIIT and it works OK [Done 4/4/07]: Umar

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