Had a few doubts about my image feature detector but it turns out the test image I was using didn't work on other implementations either. I am now
getting descriptors of the features and this week will be focused on matching these descriptors with others.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been writing sections in my background chapter on ns-3 and 802.11. I have detailed how ns-3 works, the objects involved and an overview of how the WiFi model works and is used. With 802.11 I have talked about details of the PHY and MAC layers.

In the next week I will be reviewing the material on 802.11ad.

Turns out that once again, the current design of NNTSC didn't quite meet all of the requirements for storing AMP data. The more complicated traceroute and HTTP tests needed multiple tables for storing their results, which wasn't quite going to work with the "one stream table, one data table" design I had implemented.

Managed to come up with a new design that will hopefully satisfy Brendon while still allowing for a consistent querying approach. Implemented the data collection side of this, including creating tables for the traceroute test. This was a bit trickier than planned, because SQLAlchemy doesn't natively support views and also the traceroute view was rather complicated.

Currently working on updating the exporting side to use id numbers to identify collections rather than names, since there is no longer any guarantee that the data will be located in a table called "data_" + module + module_subtype.

Also spent a fair bit of time reading over Meenakshee's report and covering it in red pen. Pretty happy with how it is coming together.

Fixed issues that cropped up last week. Working on verifying the installed Keystone Identity service and fixing authentication issues.

This week I spent some time installing, configuring and familiarizing myself with the Bro software. Next week I will begin looking how to analyse a captured set of network traffic and learn how Bro outputs it findings.

Got a full draft of the report, with a final version of Chapters 2-5. 9 chapters spread over 56pages of (hopefully) dry enough material.

Plan for the next 2 days is to edit, edit and then edit some more.

Glad it'll be over soon.

I've been working on a paper on Cardigan with Joe. Keeping things nice and dry..

Maybe after Easter I might get a chance to do some of the actual project work.

This week I began to look at cloud computing's data processing both server side and client side, to gain an appreciation of how it works. I also completed a simple flow chart and table to help me further understand the structures used to present cloud computing to users.

This week I spent my time getting a ISC DHCP server up and running on one of my vm's connected to the OVS switch and made sure it was handing out leases and that everything was running as it should.

Next I spent some time looking into "Pypureomapi" witch is a Python implementation of the DHCP OMAPI protocol. Looked at some of the example code and now have a simple script on the vm running the DHCP server that can query the DHCP server for information about leases.

The last thing I looked into was "Scapy", Richard found a webpage for me about how it can be used to sniff for arp packets and respond. I wrote another script that sniffs for arp packets on an interface and prints the src and destination addresses for that arp packet.

I handed in my thesis.