This is a joint work of Harvard and AT&T. We are still in need of more responses to the survey. You help is much appreciated.
Thank you very much! Junzhi Gong and Minlan Yu Harvard University http://minlanyu.seas.harvard.edu/ <http://minlanyu.seas.harvard.edu/> > On Jan 27, 2020, at 11:55 AM, Junzhi Gong <jug...@g.harvard.edu> wrote: > > Dear SwiNOG community, > > Today's networks (data centers, ISPs, and enterprises) all run many hardware > middleboxes and software network functions. The performance of these > components is critical for network management and user experiences. However, > when performance problems happen, it often takes a lot of human efforts to > instrument and debug these systems especially when many network functions > interact with each other and with traffic dynamics. > > We are a group of researchers from Harvard and AT&T who are building new > diagnosis tools that can automatically find potential root causes for > performance problems in network functions (especially those tail latency > problems that are hard to diagnose). This project is led by my advisor Minlan > Yu (Homepage: http://minlanyu.seas.harvard.edu/ > <http://minlanyu.seas.harvard.edu/>), an Associate Professor in Harvard > University. > > We're reaching out to the SwiNOG community to understand the performance > problems you have seen and your needs on diagnosis tools. This will greatly > help us to incorporate your needs in our tool. We plan to release our > debugging tool for the community to use. > > We greatly appreciate your help in filling out the survey below. It should > take less than 10 minutes to complete. The survey and the collected data are > anonymous (so please do *not* include information that may identify you or > your organization). All questions are optional, so if you don't like a > question or don't know the answer, please skip it. In the survey, we use > network functions as a general term to represent both hardware and software > middleboxes. A summary of the aggregate results will be published as a part > of a scientific article later this year. > > Survey URL: > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx1j2BZzk_iEuIqHLDF20Rv_LuxLcrGze00Y7CHdQwjxS1Jg/viewform?usp=sf_link > > <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx1j2BZzk_iEuIqHLDF20Rv_LuxLcrGze00Y7CHdQwjxS1Jg/viewform?usp=sf_link> > > We would also be extremely grateful if you could forward this email to any > operator you know beyond this SwiNOG mailing list. > > Junzhi Gong > Harvard University
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