This week a large amount of my time was spent on the proposal and other projects,

However I did manage to investigate datatransfers for cloud storage systems.

This week I spent time researching the Bro Network Security System in order to research and write my COMP520 proposal. I also arranged to have to virtual machines setup to begin testing Bro on.

Proposal was due this week.
so not much progress was made, majority of my time was put into writing my proposal. The other time I had, I used for finishing up assignments for other classes.
However in writing my report did manage to get a more concrete idea of how I want to proceed with my project and what it entails which is good.

The analysis method to quantify churn has been upgraded to identify groups of successors as load balancer ID rather than divergence nodes. This is because the divergence IP interface addresses can have aliases. There can also be more than one set of successors on one router.

Another scamper run on planetlab was kicked off, however I have found a snag i.e. UDP and TCP packets are not being sent out from planetlab nodes, only ICMP.

Wrote an input module for NNTSC that reads AMP data from a rabbitmq queue
and transforms it appropriately for inserting into the database (and into
the event detection tools). So far it deals correctly with data from the
icmp test.

Spent some more time trying to understand the complexities of the new AMP
graphing system in order to make some changes. There are a few edge cases
that don't display data in the right way and I believe that more data is
being fetched than is necessary in some cases. Continued to refactor
any code I touched for readability as I went.

Not a super productive week for me. I talked with Joe about writing papers and probably didn't contribute a great deal. I wrote a blurb and made a start on my proposal.

Spent the last week working on the report. Have a draft version of Chapters 2-5 that have been checked atleast once by Shane, and added most of the content for Chapter 6.

The plan for the coming week is to finish chapter 6, get it checked asap and give Richard a copy of chapters 2-6.
Then, I have a decently sized chapter to work on(7 - Threaded Network Export) and 2 smaller ones(8-Testing/Evaluation and 9-Future Work/Conclusion). There's also the intro that I need to edit at some point.

This week I have been reviewing a lot of material on 802.11 and the wifi model in ns-3 at a higher layer. I have captured traces of simulated and real 802.11 networks and have been analysing these. I am also comparing parts of these traces with relevant documentation to gain an understanding of how it all works. The next part of my work will be writing a number of pages on these reviewed topics to go into the thesis.

Trying out different variations of the data required for the graph I have in mind. Also a sample customizable dashboard is now setup with two columns and a maximum of four simultaneous frames open. For saving its state, perhaps a table in the database each time the page is refreshed can be accessed to realign it into the state the user had customized. Also trying to figure out a way to reduce the data fetch times (which is now incredibly high for having to fetch data of all test types, between all regions for a over an interval of 30s for a period of 2 mins).

Currently I'm trying to find the rotation between two images. I'm not bothered with speed yet, just trying to get it working. I've spent the last week working on finding key points in an image using the SIFT algorithm. Next I have to match these key points between the two images to hopefully find the rotation.