Status Report

• Scripting is coming along well
• Server is almost finished.
• New ideas about options fields
  • TLV (Type, Length, Value) -style options format. Type: 8-bit, Length: 8-bit, Value: 8-bit.
  • Most significant (first) bit of Type will be a flag (1) to indicate "end of options".
  • Options offset and payload pointers will be added to the packet format to indicate where options and payload start.
  • Offset values will be 16-bit each, included in common header fields

Discussion

• Deadline for SigCom performance paper.
  • December 15 to have feature-complete servers and deployment scripts ready
• Network modeling ideas
  • Use a combination of BGP prefix announcements and link connectivity information
  • Use 50 nodes, choose some 50 AS's and their connectivity information

New Tasks

• Feixiong will get 50 nodes running and get the script working
• Design topologies based on biggest AS's
  • Top-50 in terms of prefixes
  • Top-50 in terms of fanout
• Work on virtual machines with delay module and server running.