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RECIPIENT'S PROGRESS STATUS AND MANAGEMENT REPORT
Predictability and Security of High Performance Networks
for the period 16 July 1998 to 30 September 1998
Report #1
CDRL A001
CONTRACT N66001-98-2-8922
30 October 1998
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Quarterly Status Report
Predictability and Security of High Performance Networks
for the period 16 July 1998 to 30 September 1998
Contract N66001-98-2-8922
CDRL A001
1.0 Purpose of Report
This status report is the quarterly cooperative agreement report (CDRL A001) which summarizes the effort expended by the UCSD in support of SPAWARSYSCEN-SAN DIEGO and DARPA on Agreement N66001-96-2-8922.
2.0 Project Members
UCSD utilized:
| Dr. kc claffy | 120.4 hours | |
| Daniel McRobb | 172.0 hours | |
| Management | 77.4 hours | |
| Other Technical Staff | 258.0 hours |
3.0 Project Description (last modified 07/98)
UCSD/CAIDA is focusing on advancing the capacity to monitor, depict, and predict traffic behavior on current and advanced networks, through developing and deploying tools to better engineer and operate networks and to identify traffic anomalies in real time. CAIDA will concentrate efforts in the development of tools to automate the discovery and visualization of Internet topology and peering relationships, monitor and analyze Internet traffic behavior on high speed links, detect and control resource use (security), and provide for storage and analysis of data collected in aforementioned efforts.
4.0 Performance Against Plan
In August, SPAWAR informed UCSD that the budget and statement of work for this project would need to be amended to comply with actual financial allocations from DARPA. Alternatives were discussed at the project kickoff meeting on September 2, 1998, and recommended changes were provided to SPAWAR in mid September.
In early September, the technical efforts under Task 3 were modified to respond to anticipated changes in the SOW. CAIDA discontinued work on the security features of the OC3mon and initiated efforts on the OC12mon. GA is operating in an at-risk mode since the subcontract has yet to be finalized.
MCI is also operating in an at-risk mode and is focusing exclusively on refining the specifications for the OC48 monitor. MCIs subcontract to UCSD is still being negotiated (see section 7.0, Issues).
Task 2 (Tomography) is ahead of schedule due to contributions made from other CAIDA resources. Task 4 (Database) is on schedule.
5.0 Major Accomplishments to Date
Under the Tomography Mapping/Modeling task, skitter (an active measurement tool) is being run from five CAIDA source hosts distributed throughout the U.S. infrastructure at San Diego, Ann Arbor, Palo Alto, Boulder, and Urbana-Champaign. Path data and round-trip-time measurements to over 23,000 destination hosts are being collected on a Enterprise 450 server donated by Sun, then stored on a Compaq/Digital ESA10000 StorageWorks RAID Array purchased under Task 4 (note that Digital discounted the price of this array by 50 percent, a $90,000 savings, and CAIDA contributed $30,000 from private sector funds to this purchase). Approximately 15GB of data are stored on the array as of the end of this quarter. Cost sharing on this effort during the first quarter amounts to upwards $160,000.
Presentations on skitter measurements were made to several significant Internet-related groups during this quarter (see section 11.2 Significant Events).
6.0 Artifacts Developed During the Past Quarter
There were no artifacts of note developed during this reporting period.
7.0 Issues
7.1 Open issues with no plan, as yet, for resolution:
None.
7.2 Open issues with plan for resolution:
As of the end of Quarter 1, UCSD is awaiting final word from SPAWAR and DARPA regarding the proposed budget and revised Statement of Work. We anticipate that the Cooperative Agreement will be renegotiated and finalized early in Quarter 2.
UCSD is in subcontract negotiations with General Atomics and with MCI Worldcom. We anticipate that the GA subcontract will be concluded soon. Award of MCI Worldcoms subcontract is contingent on UCSD receiving sufficient financial information to assure UCSD officials that their will be appropriate fiscal accountability under a firm, fixed-price contract.
7.3 Issues resolved:
N/A
8.0 Near-term Plan
The material below reflects the activities planned during the Quarter 2 of this project. It is organized according to the categories identified in the Project Program Plan (see https://www.caida.org/funding/progplan/NGIprogplan98.xml).
A. General/Administrative Outreach and Reporting
- Quarterly meeting with SPAWAR Officials
- Participate in DARPA NGI Principal Investigator Meeting, Oct. 26-29 1998
- Deliver technical presentations to organizations interested in the technical aspects of this NGI research
- Submit Quarterly Report to SPAWAR covering progress, status and management
- Submit Quarterly Financial Status Report (UCSD Extramural Funds Dept. submits)
- Submit Quarterly Report of Federal Cash Transactions (UCSD Extramural Funds Dept. submits)
B. Task 1. Coral OC48mon
- Finalize subcontract with MCI
- Develop specifications and schematics for the OC48 monitor
- Review preliminary specs with DARPA, SPAWAR and other Next Generation Internet (NGI) collaborators, as appropriate
C. Task 2. Tomography Mapping/Modeling
- Continue collection of data from distributed sites throughout the global Internet -- approximately 23,000 hosts
- Continue briefings to Internet community on purpose and initial results of skitter and solicit their inputs
- Add additional 1-2 measurement hosts
- Begin analysis of data
D. Task 3. Security
- Initiate porting of kernel packet filtering code to the Coral OC12 monitor
- Initiate development of prototype firmware (FPGA) packet header filter
E. Task 4. Storage/Analysis
- Finalize configurations of disk array and front-end collector/processor/storage agent
- Initiate transfer/storage of data directly from remote monitoring host
- Initiate analysis of skitter and related data (BGP and trace data) by CAIDA researchers
9.0 Completed Travel
kc claffy met with Hilarie Orman (DARPA) during a trip to Washington DC in July 1998. This travel was not charged to the project. (See section 11.2, Significant Events, for details of Claffy's meetings for this quarter).
Claffy traveled to Chicago, IL for a meeting of the Internet Engineering Planning Group (IEPG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in August 1998. She made a presentation on the goals and status of the skitter measurements at the IEPG meeting.
Claffy traveled to Washington DC in September 1998 to meet with Mari Maeda (DARPA).
MCI Worldcom engineers traveled to San Diego (from Reston, VA) in August-September 1998 to present on the OC48mon effort at the Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA https://www.caida.org/workshops/isma/9808/report.html) conference and at the NGI Project Kickoff Meeting.
10.0 Equipment Purchases and Description
Compaq (DEC) ESA10000 StorageWorks RAID Array, ultra cab with peripherals
Model Number: DS-SW600-AA UCID Number: 986035111 Serial Number: NI826W7881
Total cost: $93,883.09
(Note that Digital provided a 50 percent discount on this machine, a savings of roughly $94,000 to the project. Approximately $27,000 of the remaining cost of the array was covered by contributions from CAIDAs commercial supporters.)
A Sun Enterprise 450 server valued at $36,000 was donated to UCSD/CAIDA to serve as a collection/process engine for this project.
Cost sharing amounts to roughly $157,000 during the start-up of this project.
11.0 Summary of Activity
11.1 Work Focus:
Task 1. Coral OC48mon
Progress on Task 1 (OC48 Monitor Development) is delayed due to subcontract negotiations between UCSD and MCI Worldcom and finalization of the project budget and SOW (see section 7.0 Issues above). Preliminary OC48mon specifications were presented by Joel Apisdorf at both the Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA) conference (August 31-September 1, 1998) and at the NGI Project Kickoff Meeting held at SDSC on September 2, 1998. A copy of the presentation is available at https://www.caida.org/workshops/isma/9808/slides/isma98-oc48mon/index.htm.
Task 2. Tomography Mapping/Modeling
skitter development and initial deployment was accomplished in late Spring 1998 (with NSF and private sector support). Preliminary results were presented at the North American Network Operators' Group meeting in June 1998 (https://www.caida.org/publications/presentations/Caida.june98/) by Daniel McRobb (developer of skitter and task leader for this effort). By early August, skitter was deployed on five CAIDA machines collecting measurements from over 23,000 destinations throughout the global Internet. kc claffy described the goals and status of skitter at the August meeting of the Internet Engineering Planning Group (IEPG), immediately preceding the 42nd meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Task 3. Security
A CAIDA OC3mon was deployed in San Diego Supercomputer Centers (SDSC) Pacific Institute for Computer Security (PICS) Lab in August 1998 to support efforts under Task 3. Following the NGI Kickoff Meeting in early September, a decision was made to reduce the statement of work for this task and to shift the technical focus to the OC12mon cards. OC12 cards (from Applied Telecom) and a host system are to be ordered soon. Glenn Sager (task leader) is engaged in preliminary work on this task in conjunction with CAIDAs Mike Tesch (developer of the UNIX code for OC12mon).
Task 4. Storage/Analysis
The storage task is on schedule. This summer, Sun Microsystems donated an Enterprise 450 server to UCSD/CAIDA. The server is being used for data collection and interim storage and for processing and rendering of visualizations derived from skitter data. In August 1998, CAIDA purchased a Compaq/Digital ESA10000 RAID Array for storage of collected data. A storage format, arts++ was implemented on the array to support data storage. (Note that arts++ is a binary file format library developed by Daniel McRobb that builds on the ARTS code licensed to UCSD/CAIDA in March 1998 by ANS Communications. arts++ is designed for storage of passive and active measurement data and routing data. It is being distributed publicly in association with cflowd software, developed by McRobb to analyze flow-export data from Cisco routers. cflowd v.2.0 was announced by CAIDA in October 1998, see https://www.caida.org/tools/measurement/cflowd/.)
11.2 Significant Events:
7-20-98 Arlington, VA kc claffy met with Hilarie Orman to review the status of the project.
7-27-98 Arlington, VA - Claffy delivered a presentation on the skitter tool for Hilarie Orman (DARPA), Javad Baroumand (NSF), and personnel from the University of Southern California's Internet Sciences Institute (ISI).
8-21-98 San Diego, CA - Tracie Monk of CAIDA presented an overview of the NGI project at the first quarterly meeting with SPAWAR Officials. The meeting was held at SDSC and attended by Steve Spendlove and Rich Laverty of SPAWAR; Anne Mayer of UCSD; Glenn Sager of SDSC/PICS; kc claffy and Tracie Monk of CAIDA; and other SDSC and CAIDA staff.
8-23-98 Chicago, IL - Claffy delivered a presentation on the skitter tool for a meeting of the Internet Engineering Planning Group, preceding the 42nd meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. (The presentation is available online at https://www.caida.org/publications/presentations/IEPG.9808/)
8-31-98 and 9-1-98 San Diego, CA The skitter efforts and OC48mon tool were discussed during presentations at the ISMA: Engineering Data and Analysis conference at SDSC, see presentations and a summary of discussions at https://www.caida.org/workshops/isma/9808/report.html.
9-2-98 San Diego, CA CAIDA held an NGI project kickoff meeting at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Discussions focused on each of the major tasks, including current status and future plans (see attached meeting notes).
9-23-98 Arlington, VA - Claffy met with Mari Maeda following Maedas appointment as the new DARPA Project Manager for this effort. They discussed CAIDA's NGI project in general and the skitter tool in particular.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION:
Contract #: N66001-98-2-8922
Contract Period of Performance: 16/07/1998 to 15/07/2000
Ceiling Value: $6,655,449
Actual Costs
Current Period:
| UCSD | |||
| Labor | Hours 627.8 | Cost $33,839 | |
| ODC's | Cost $67,955 | ||
| TOTAL: | Hours 627.8 | Cost $101,974 | |
Cumulative to date:
| UCSD | |||
| Labor | Hours 627.8 | Cost $33,839 | |
| ODC's | Cost $67,955 | ||
| TOTAL: | Hours 627.8 | Cost $101,974 | |
Attachments:
Please find, electronically attached to this document, a copy of the PowerPoint presentation given by Dr. Claffy at the DARPA NGI Principal Investigators Meeting held in October, 1998. The presentation is entitled, "predictability and security of high performance networks: expanding control through monitoring, visualization and analysis." This presentation is representative of presentations given by CAIDA in support of this project, many of which are referred to above.