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Welcome to the Net Scale Laboratory

The NetScale laboratory is an effort by Dr. Aaron Striegel of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. The goal of the wiki is to help capture our standard processes as well as provide an easier to access view of our various resources. While you are here, feel free to browse on over to our other wikis which include educational offerings and research papers that our group has discussed. For fun, you can catch the blog of Dr. Striegel here as well.

Additional information regarding our sponsored research, current projects, publications, current student researchers, and our released software tools can be found here on the wiki. Our group meeting (summer 2008 schedule) is on Thursdays in the CSE conference room from 11 AM to 12 PM. You can follow along with our weekly paper reviews here if you would like.

Our flagship projects include transparent bandwidth conservation (ScaleBox), streamlining network security management via local context (Lockdown), and grid-based storage for molecular simulations (GEMS).

Interested in the topics but want to find researchers in similar areas? Take a visit to recent collaborators of Dr. Striegel in both CS and beyond.

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Recent News

June 2008 Conference Paper The second paper on the Lockdown project, ENAVis: Enterprise Network Activities Visualization, focusing on the visualization aspects has been accepted to appear at LISA 2008.
  Position Paper Our first wiki position / technical report is on-line regarding considering the size of HD content as a natural DRM. Our goal is to post 2-3 of these position papers a year.
  Equipment Grant The departmental news item is up regarding the experimental campus-wide mesh network that we are constructing as part of the DURIP grant funded via ONR.
  Award Congratulations to our Ph.D group member, Mike Chapple, on receiving a Notre Dame Presidential Award for his service to the university as part of the Notre Dame Information Security effort.
  Subversion We have now transitioned the core ScaleBox tool suite to Subversion. The files are now directly browsable here or also in ViewVC form here. Over the course of the summer, we will be transitioning most of our software tools over to Subversion for simplified download of the tools in source form.
May 2008 Summer Summer schedule is now here with the group meeting shifting to Thursdays in the CSE conference room from 11-12 PM.
  Grant Thanks to Motorola Labs for a grant of $10k plus equipment along with support for the Motorola Labs design challenge for the Computer System Design course.
  Wiki Hop on over to new wiki for the DARTS lab.
  Conference Our paper on wireless time coordination entitled "A Light Weight Method for Maintaining Clock Synchronization for Networked Systems" has been accepted to appear at ICCCN 2008.
  Group Picture Congrats to Team 2 (Jeff Simmer, Ed Suski, A. J. Sporinsky) from CSE 40422 (Computer System Design) on winning the Motorola Labs Challenge project. The students designed a novel media-sharing application for smart mobile devices as part of a new joint effort between Dr. Striegel, Dr. Poellabauer, and Dr. Shivajit Mohapatra of Motorola Labs.
  REU Supplement Our REU site for the summer will be up to a full 14 students, 10 courtesy of the REU site and the remaining through NSF REU support. While applications are closed for this year, check back at the end of the summer regarding progress reports for the various students.
April 2008 INFOCOM Demo The code for our INFOCOM demo of RIPPS can be found here.
  Grant We will be revamping our simulation testbed to fully fledged emulation suite together with a university-wide mesh network courtesy of a DURIP grant. (PI: Poellabauer, Co-PIs: Striegel, Laneman).
  Talks A flurry of talks these past few weeks by Dr. Striegel at the University of Connecticut, Boston University, MIT, and the University of Kentucky. Talk abstracts / slides will be posted shortly to the wiki.
March 2008 REU Site Our first round of admits for the NSF REU site are out. We will be doing a second round and will still be taking applicants for this second round for the site as well as project-specific REUs.
  Ph.D Defense Congratulations to the soon to be Dr. Justin Wonziak on his successful Ph.D defense!
  Server Issues Apologies to everyone who experienced issues with connectivity over the past week. We had a catastrophic disk failure on the previous Wiki server and are now running on the new AEG equipment.
  Journal Paper Congratulations to Qi Liao on getting his most recent paper on botnet defense accepted to the Journal of Security and Networks.
February 2008 Papers Accepted Two new papers accepted to the upcoming IEEE WoWMoM conference, one on wireless loss characteristics under 802.11 and another on the power/performance characteristics of USB flash drives.
January 2008 REU Site NSF REU applications are now open. Information on the Experimental Research on Wireless Networking (ERWiN) REU site can be found here.
December 2007 Equipment Grant Our lab has received a Sun Academic Excellence Grant (AEG) to support our work on Lockdown via SunRay thin clients and a new database / SunRay server. The new SunRay thin clients will also support our upcoming REU site.
  Ph.D Proposal Congratulations to Mike Chapple on passing his Ph.D proposal defense!
November 2007 Downtime The web server was temporarily out from Saturday late afternoon to early Monday morning due to a panic of the LOM processor. Hopefully, it is a one time occurrence.
  REU Site Dr. Poellabauer and Dr. Striegel will be the new recipients of a NSF site REU. Registration information for prospective students will be posted shortly here and at the DARTS lab. We will be looking for 10 undergraduate (domestic only) students ranging from current freshman to current juniors. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
  Course offering Dr. Striegel will be offering an enhanced version of CSE 40422 (Computer System Design) in the spring with special opportunities for students to work on Wifi-enabled cell phones. Juniors and seniors in any field of engineering are welcome to take the course with the pre-requisite of operating systems being waived.
October 2007 Eye Candy Our Lockdown software is now generating nightly graphs of our monitor pool that is displayed on the hallway propaganda monitor. Links to the nightly generated graphs are included as thumbnails.
 
  Software The first alpha code for the ScaleBox framework is now posted on-line here.
  NGW100 Our newest acquisition in the lab is a set of Atmel NGW100 network gateway reference boards. We are looking to see if we can get RIPPS and ScaleBox to run at reasonable speeds for these boards. Features of the boards include dual Ethernet adapters with native microcontroller support, a working Linux kernel pre-installed, and a free developer environment (AVRStudio32).
  Search The search bar and change list are fixed now. The Solaris version of egrep and fgrep were causing problems with TWiki. Various user tools for account maintenance and RSS feeds should also be functional as well.
September 2007 Stats Browse the stats for our web server here. External dynamic access is disabled but enjoy the wonder that is awstats
  Conference panel Slides from the panel Dr. Striegel spoke on at IEEE BroadNets concerning the encroachment of Ethernet into the MAN (Metro Area Network) and WAN
  Talk Talk at NC State on ScaleBox by Dr. Striegel ppt
August 2007 Undergraduate research Undergraduate research opportunities for the fall semester are listed on the flyer here
  Masters Defense Congratulations to Qi Liao who successfully defended his Master's Thesis entitled "Improving Network Insight Through Local Context Gathering and Analysis".
  Operations The NetScale wiki has now migrated to its official home on http://netscale.cse.nd.edu. Please update your bookmarks accordingly although re-direction will be enabled for the foreseeable future from the old site.
  Accepted Poster IEEE BroadNets 2007 - Improving Medium-Sized Media Clip Distribution Through Transparent Tail Synchronization
July 2007 Project Highlight Transparent Bandwidth Conservation - Tap analysis results for inbound UDP traffic to wireless network hosts offers peak savings approaching 80%
 
  Accepted Journal ACM CCR - JumboGen: Dynamic Jumbo Frame Generation for Network Performance Scalability
  Project Highlight Check out the user and application chaining graphs generated as part of the visualization for the Lockdown project.
User Chaining Application Chaining
Students: Andrew Blaich, Qi Liao, Greg Allan, Brian Sullivan
Travel Grant Andrew Blaich received a student travel grant to attend USENIX Security 2007 in August. He will be presenting our poster on LockDown.
Software The initial version (1.0) of RIPPS as used for our upcoming ACM TISSEC paper is now available for download. Look for new revisions near the end of the month.
June 2007 NSF REU We have three undergraduate students working as REUs this summer: Kyle O'Brien, Nathan Kohlmeier, and Greg Allan.
  Presentation Presentation at MineNet 2007 by Mike Chapple
  Research Two new boxes are live, a PlayStation 3 with Linux and a new Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstation with an nVidia GeForce 8800 for evaluating the performance of highly multi-core systems for packet analysis
  Poster Poster accepted on LockDown to appear at USENIX Security 07
May 2007 Upcoming presentation Our work on implementing Opportunistic Wireless Broadcast on the Intel IXP has been selected as one of the few live presentations for the 2007 Intel Embedded and Communications Education Summit. The presentation will be posted on-line once it is complete. Look to the wiki for more details regarding our implementation once we iron out additional bugs.
  Accepted Journal ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) - RIPPS: Rogue Identifying Packet Payload Slicer Detecting Unauthorized Wireless Hosts Through Network Traffic Conditioning
  Accepted Conference MineNet: Authentication Anomaly Detection: A Case Study on a Virtual Private Network - Authors: Chapple, Chawla, Striegel
  Accepted Conference MobiQuitous: Delay- and Energy-Aware Multi-Path Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks - Authors: Shillingford, Salyers, Poellabauer, Striegel

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