CHEETAH Documents

Papers     Documents     Proposals and Reports

• H. Bhuiyan, M. McGinley, T. Li, and M. Veeraraghavan, "Report on Transport Protocols over Mismatched-rate Layer-1 Circuits with IEEE 802.3x Flow Control," Technical Memorandum, 2008.

• H. Bhuiyan, M. McGinley, T. Li, and M. Veeraraghavan, "TCP Implementation in Linux: A Brief Tutorial," Technical Memorandum, 2008.

• X. Fang and M. Veeraraghavan, "On applications for dynamically shared circuit-switched/virtual-circuit networks," Technical Memorandum, 2007.

• On the suitability of using circuit-switched networks for storage applications, Sept 7, 2007.

   We identified three storage applications, disaster-recovery (DR) for critical data, backup-storage for ordinary users’ data, and server-replication of web servers and email servers for a quick recovery from failures, and studied their potential as candidates for dynamically shared circuit-switched networks.

• A discussion of goals and control-plane implications for our HOPI experiments, May 5, 2007.

   This document describes the CHEETAH control-plane requirements and design, and provides our motivation for this design. It also compares the CHEETAH control-plane solution with the DRAGON control-plane solution.

• Extension options for the CHEETAH network, April 15, 2007 (password protected - email mvee@virginia.edu, if interested).
• Proposal for experimentation on the HOPI testbed, Jan. 29, 2007.
• Addressing and secure control-plane network design in GMPLS networks, April 7, 2006.

   This document describes a scalable GMPLS control-plane network design, which we have implemented in the CHEETAH network. To ensure scalability of our GMPLS network, we assigned public IP addresses to the control-plane and data-plane interfaces of end hosts, and to the control-plane ports and Router ID/Switch IP addresses of the Sycamore SN16000 GMPLS switches. These addresses are assigned from the public IP address space of the enterprises in which the different CHEETAH end hosts and switches are located. When a circuit is established between two CHEETAH end hosts, the two ends have IP addresses from different subnets. In order to ensure proper routing of IP datagrams and Ethernet frames, we implement a solution in which the IP routing table and ARP table are configured with appropriate entries at the two end hosts when a dedicated GbEthernet circuit is setup. When the circuit is released, these entries are deleted. This action is comparable to the data-plane programming of a switch fabric during call setup and release. This document also describes our security solution for the GMPLS control plane. It is based on IPsec.

• Report of file transfer experiments on the CHEETAH network, July 27, 2005.
• M. Veeraraghavan, X. Zheng, Z. Huang, " Connection-oriented internetworking," Jan. 2005.
• M. Veeraraghavan, Z. Huang, X. Zhu, and X. Zheng, "Enabling a connection-oriented Internet," June 2004.

• Project Summary
• Project Description and References
• Year 5
• Detailed Year 5 UVa Workplan
• July 2007 - Dec. 2007
• Detailed UVa Workplan for July 2007 - Dec. 2007
• Year 4 UVa Special Report
• Year 4
• Detailed Year 4 UVa Workplan
• Year 4 UVa Activities Report
• Year 4 UVa Findings Report
• Year 3
• Detailed Year 3 UVa Workplan
• Year 3 UVa Activities Report
• Year 3 UVa Findings Report
• Year 2
• Detailed Year 2 UVa Workplan
• Year 2 UVa Activities Report
• Year 2 UVa Findings Report
• Year 1
• Detailed Year 1 UVa Workplan
• Year 1 UVa Activities Report
• Year 1 UVa Findings Report

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