Traffic Engineering Task Forces

Traffic engineering involves adapting the routing of traffic to the network conditions, with the joint goals of good user performance and efficient use of network resources. The goal is open source TE toolbox

Link to a forum for the members of the task force (part of E-NEXT WG1 - Mobile and Ambient Networking Workgroup) and wider community to announce events, projects or relevant news

PlanetLab

PlanetLab@Univerity Paris 6 (France): projects that are currently run at PlanetLab are
- GeoLIM: Geographic Location of Internet Hosts with Multilateration GeoLIM project aims at providing the geographic location of an Internet host, around the world, using solely its IP address. The key element of GeoLIM is its ability to transform delay measurements between landmarks (probe machines) and a target host, into geographic distance constraints. It uses multilateration -alike GPS- to estimate the geographic location of the target host.

- Traceroute@home
The traceroute@home project studies the implications of highly distributed internet
topology discovery infrastructures. If large numbers of route tracing monitors are
deployed throughout the network, what will they discover that smaller systems do not?
And how can these monitors coordinate their efforts in order to be highly effective while
at the same time avoiding undue load on network resources?

http://www.planetlab.ethz.ch/: Interest in: Traffic characterization / Anomaly detection and intrusion management / Brokerage in the context of P2P networks / Service and resource discovery

http://netlab.ru.is/planetlab/planetlab.shtml: projects that are currently run at PlanetLab are
SLIM: Self-configuring Lightweight Internet Multicast

Gtrace: A Multicast Monitoring Tool

PlanetLab@FOKUS: coming soon

PlanetLab@Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)

PlanetLab@SICS (Sweden)

http://www.nas.its.tudelft.nl/people/people.htm

http://www-rp.lip6.fr/)

http://www-sop.inria.fr/

PlanetLab@Lancaster University (UK)

PlanetLab@Cambridge University (UK)

IPv6

Applications and tools for IPv6 (see also Euro6IX)
ISABEL, Mgen6, Ping6, Netperf, Chess, Mangband, Tetris
Isadel application

NetMeter, LONG IPv6 Web Tool, LONG NETWORK STATISTICS GENERATION SCRIPTS
IPv6 software Test scenarios
IPv6 in/for Microsoft products

KPhone is a voice-over-IP softphone which uses SIP for signalling. The original version is maintained at wirlab. This version of KPhone was extended to support IPv6 for audio calls and user registration.

A Lightweight TCP/IP Stack (for use in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for around 40 kilobytes of code ROM)

A simple tool that accept an IPv4/6 incoming connection and it translates it into IPv6/4.

Measurements and monitoring:

a platform for knowledge and tool exchange, and for coordinating activities in the field of IP monitoring and measurement between IST projects and other European partners. Available docs: D11 - State of Interoperability

Integrated Topology Discovery, Monitoring, Modelling, Visual Data Mining and Simulation Platform using data base with policy control for inter-domain QoS Analysis.

Informational resource

Common VoIP Measurement Infrastructure (Tampere Uni, FOKUS, Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (INFOB), Namur, SICS), access to VoIP traces

The Distributed Internet Traffic Generator (D-ITG) is a platform capable to produce traffic (network, transport and application layer) and accurately replicate appropriate stochastic processes for both IDT (Inter Departure Time) and PS (Packet Size) random variables, measures OWD and RTT

A public domain network analyzer. For Windows 95/98/NT platform.
Windows porting of the famous tcpdump tool. For Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Windows Packet Capture Library; compatible with libpcap for UNIX. For Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

Tools Taxonomy

available Tools

Benchmarking

Connectivity Test

QoS Measurement

Packet Capturing

Traffic Generators

Links Projects

Organizations

Tools

Publications

Misc

New A large repository of measurement data (pcap IP/TCP Headers). The data is more recent than most other repositories

French monitoring platform with some links on related resources. This is a joint project between several partners in France. Among them LAAS, LIP6 and EURECOM are part of the E-NEXT NoE.

Advancements in streaming web video:

Breakthrough technologies have allowed online career training websites to free up more time and save millions of dollars in human resources. There are some new seminars in and around the beautiful island of Mallorca. There are also many fincas available for executives. To find a suitable finca mallorca try doing a search on Google or another popular search engine.

Testbeds:

The FOKUS 3G beyond Test- and Development Center –
Infrastructures and Service Platforms for Mobile Solutions

Wireless Mesh Router testbed on the Jussieu Campus at Paris. The first version of it should be operational by Septemeber 04.
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In MobileMan, an EU funded project in which we are a partner, we have developed a routing testbed for ad hoc networks. The sw runs on iPaq palmtops that have Linux OS. In the routing sw we have moved the forwarding functions into the Linux kernel, the nodes can run several routing protocols, currently operational are AODV, OLSR and we are working on ZRP. The nodes can be either "smart" or "dummy". Smart nodes can provide additional services such as a gateway to a Basestation or an AP. Our goal is to enlarge the prototype towards service discovery. We are also playing with putting SIP and VOIP on top.
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Ad hoc routing in our testbed within the CARE project.

Preambulo project
SARA - Simple Active Router-assistant Architecture of GCAP project

Situated & Autonomic Communication & Networking:

Project ANS - at http://www.ubicare.org/

information resource

Active Networks:

Active networking is allowing programs to be dynamically installed on nodes to alter their forwarding behaviour, or programs may even travel within packets to be processed by each active node they traverse.

RADAR (Ring-based Adaptive Discovery of Active neighbour Routers). RADAR extends the ANTS toolkit by giving active nodes the ability to discover automatically other active nodes sufficiently close to them, without relying to any configuration.

A-Jsim - a modified version of j-sim (formerly known as 'javasim') to support RUN Active Network Simulator (below)

RANS - collection of packages that allow ANTS capsules to be processed on simulated nodes within j-sim (and ssf-net). It comes with a collection of tools to ease topology generation and results lookup through a tiny HTTP server using graphviz:dot as backend. It also comes with dRADAR, the neighbours discovery service which can be activated separately on any active nodes and will ease the work on automatically-generated heterogeneous topologies.

A videoconferencing system with Active Networks technology.

Programmable Networks of Tomorrow: The approach in PRONTO is in part based on the observation that newer technologies are more easily configurable on smaller time scale than before, and in part by the increasing need for rapid service creation and deployment.

A dynamically extensible active network platform with IPv4 and IPv6 support running in the Linux kernel. PromethOS v1 was developed by ETH Zurich as a partner in IST-FAIN, an EU funded project.

A dynamically extensible active network platform for network nodes built of processor hierarchies with network and host processors.

Routing:

An indirect and scalable routing protocol for self-organizing networks

multicast service setup using MLDv1/MLDv2 with PIM-SM/PIM-SSM approach over heterogeneous network infrastructures

An open source GNU/GPL implementation of the ALC and NORM protocol families. The ALC part is (C) copyright INRIA - Universite Paris 6, the NORM part is (C) copyright INRIA.

An open source GNU/GPL implementation of the LDPC large block FEC code for e.g. reliable multicast

exact multi-constrained shortest path algorithm (Source code)
heuristic multi-constrained shortest path algorithm (Source code)

is coordinated with the "Scalable and Robust Routing" project, for instance when it comes to fail-over routing mechanisms, and the "Self Regulating Traffic Control" project, for instance when it comes to optimal load balancing.

We have developed an automated manager for QoS-aware traffic engineered networks, whose primary purpose is to evaluate and compare the performance of different intra-domain routing algorithms in a real experimental network.

The arrival of user flow requests is simulated, for each of which an explicit path is computed by the selected routing algorithm. Such an explicit path is then established and the traffic corresponding to the request being served is generated. The underlying MPLS network allows to explicitly route flows through the establishment of explicit LSPs. All the components of the automated manager have been implemented under Linux.

Wireless:

Information resources

Information resources : Adaptive Context Aware Services
Middleware for Adaptive Multimedia Communications
Low Cost Infrastructure Systems

information resources

Traffic Control:

This information resource addresses three main areas of traffic control in the Internet: the spatial control of best-effort TCP traffic, control solutions for controlled load services and for guaranteed services.

on Internet over Satellites, Networking and Distributed Systems DEA, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France (6 hours)

Miscellaneous:

Various research oriented tools

a JMF based application to invite users to streaming sessions (tgz program archive, 2.5 MB), (tgz documentation archive, 60 kB)

A Teachable Operating System -- a lightweight multi-threaded, multi-tasking operating system for research and education.

Jahmm - a Java implementation of Hidden Markov Model (HMM) related algorithms. It has been designed to be easy to use and general purpose

Contiki is an open source, highly portable, networked, multi-tasking operating system for memory-constrained systems

The open-source uIP TCP/IP stack provide TCP/IP connectivity to tiny embedded 8-bit microcontrollers, without sacrificing interoperability or RFC standards compliance.

a Java-based implementation of a new QoS oriented transport protocol

a cooperative environment which integrates multimedia cooperative components for audio and video dialogues. This environment supports collaborative work and
also allows to share documents and dedicated software, first developed for single-user.