Network Simulation and Testing Polly Huang EE NTU

Polly Huang, NTU EE2 Vital Information Course: 網路模擬與測試 Taught by: 黃寶儀 Class No. : 921 U7400 Credit: 3 units

Polly Huang, NTU EE3 For Some of You The first non-English course taught in English All communication in English, including –Lectures –Homework –Exams –In/off-class interaction

Polly Huang, NTU EE4 Be Aware Homework and exams are accepted only in English Credits are granted only when the English is comprehensible

Polly Huang, NTU EE5 Though to avoid confusion… Please make sure your names are clearly written in Chinese.

Think of it this way: I get to be an exchange student without going physically abroad.

Polly Huang, NTU EE7 Some Suggestions Read the corresponding material/slides before a lecture Review the recording of a lecture speech –Lectures will be recorded and put available in mp3 format

Today Class admin

Polly Huang, NTU EE9 Roadmap The essentials Administrative Information Content –Course objective and scope –Syllabus Your responsibility –Homework –Exams Grading policy Class material

Polly Huang, NTU EE10 The Essentials Course page – simtest-05-spring/ Polly Huang – –Click the ‘Teaching’ link –Then, click the ‘Network Simulation and Testing’ link

Polly Huang, NTU EE11 Roadmap The essentials Administrative Information Content –Course objective and scope –Syllabus Your responsibility –Homework –Exams Grading policy Class material

Polly Huang, NTU EE12 Lecture Info Location –BL Room 103 Time –Friday, 14:20-17:20 –2 breaks 15:10-15:30 16:20-16:30 –Please note that during the breaks the priority goes to the calls of nature. –Questions will be addressed afterwards.

Polly Huang, NTU EE13 The Instructor Polly Huang –Office: BL, Room 613 –Phone: – –Homepage:

Polly Huang, NTU EE14 Office Hour By appointment Vote for a common slot next week

Polly Huang, NTU EE15 Background Knowledge Advanced courses on data networks There will be networking terms that I assume you have learned about at some point. The tools are all data network specific. You’ll definitely need to know how the TCP/IP network works and the advanced research-oriented ideas. This will be a difficult course if you do not have sufficient background.

Polly Huang, NTU EE16 Software Skill Unix! C/C++ Experience with scripting language

Polly Huang, NTU EE17 Equipment Requirement A laptop/PC of your manipulation –Installing FreeBSD –Installing tools –Doing homework

Polly Huang, NTU EE18 Roadmap The essentials Administrative Information Content –Course objective and scope –Syllabus Your responsibility –Homework –Term project Grading policy Class material

Polly Huang, NTU EE19 Nature An advanced course on networks experiments –Basics –Tools –Real experiments For graduates students –Serious –Responsible –Spontaneous

Polly Huang, NTU EE20 Objectives Revisiting the fundamental experimental design and analysis Examine the workload model and experimental design suitable for network research Emphasizing the details of measurement, simulation, and testing tools for network research Practical training of theory learned in real- world problems

Polly Huang, NTU EE21 Two Good Examples Global Internet 2005 in conjunction to Infocom 2005 –Kuan-Ta Chen, Chun-Ying Huang Infocom 2005 –Shin-Ping Liu

Polly Huang, NTU EE22 Scope The network experiments –Performance evaluation in general –The target system, I.e. data network The system The workload The metrics –The tools ns-2 dummynet tcpdump and libpcap

Polly Huang, NTU EE23 Syllabus: Part I 03/04 Admin 03/11 Overview: Analyzing the Internet (HW#1: demo your installation of FreeBSD) 03/18 Workload: Traffic 03/25 Workload: Topology (HW#2: Paper Review) 04/01 Workload: Internet Dynamics 04/08 Experimental Design by Case: Analysis, Simulation, Live Testing (HW#3: Paper Review)

Polly Huang, NTU EE24 Syllabus: Part II 04/15 ns-2 I 04/22 ns-2 II 04/29 ns-2 III (HW#4: Lab on installing ns-2) 05/06 ns-2 IV 05/13 tcpdump and libpcap (HW#5: Lab on ns-2 exercises) 05/20 tcpdump and libpcap

Polly Huang, NTU EE25 Syllabus: Part III 05/27 dummynet I (HW#6: Lab on tcpdump exercise) 06/03 dummynet II 06/10 dummynet III (HW#7: Lab on acquiring dummynet) 06/17 dummynet IV 06/24 Project Presentation (HW#7: Lab on dummynet exercise, report due)

Polly Huang, NTU EE26 Roadmap The essentials Administrative Information Content –Course objective and scope –Syllabus Your responsibility –Assignments –Term project Grading policy Class material

Polly Huang, NTU EE27 Homework 8 homework assignments –Some demos –Some labs –Some paper reviews Submission in electronic format Absolutely no late assignments

Polly Huang, NTU EE28 Term Project Research-oriented exercise Research cycle –Literature review –Problem definition –Comparison –Potential ways to improve –Experimental design –Analysis –Presentation Our Emphasis Research-oriented exercise Research cycle –Literature review –Problem definition –Comparison –Potential ways to improve –Experimental design –Analysis –Presentation

Polly Huang, NTU EE29 To Start With Identify an evaluation problem Hypothesize results Propose a experimental plan Execute the plan Analyze experimental results Present the results

Polly Huang, NTU EE30 Formality Working in groups of 2 or 3 1-page double-spaced proposal by the midterm week 6-page (or less), 11-pt-font, double-spaced report by the final week

Polly Huang, NTU EE31 In-person Communication Each group will meet with me after turning in the proposal I will give you my feedback on the proposal

Polly Huang, NTU EE32 Roadmap The essentials Administrative Information Content –Course objective and scope –Syllabus Your responsibility –Homework –Term project Grading policy Class material

Polly Huang, NTU EE33 Grading Homework (40%) Project proposal (20%) Project presentation (20%) Project report (20%) Extra credit –Class participation –Up to 20%

Polly Huang, NTU EE34 Roadmap The essentials Administrative information Content –Course objective and scope –Syllabus Your responsibility –Homework –Term project Grading policy Class material

Polly Huang, NTU EE35 Class Material Tool manual pages Reading List

Polly Huang, NTU EE36 Additional Material Lecture slides in ppt format Lecture recordings in mp3 format All available from the course page

Questions?

Polly Huang, NTU EE38 The Essentials Course page – simtest-spring-05/ Polly Huang – –Click the ‘Teaching’ link –Then, click the ‘Network Simulation and Testing’ link