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Project 113: NoTA Deep dive

Background and motivation
A hot research topic in ad-hoc service collaboration is using the Network on Terminal Architecture. The Question is: How cool the NoTA is when looking at it from inside?

Project goal
The aim of this project is to grab a Network Protocol Analyzer together NoTA specifications and create a Wireshark plug-in for NoTA protocol. This ultimately enable to collect significant amount of data over various transports to make relevant conclusions of the scalability and performance of the protocol.

The students are invited to propose, implement or reuse services and platforms which emphasize the advantages they observes of the NoTA protocol usage – such as a ‘multi-user local area Video chat in walkie-talkie style’ service may be.

Desired student skills/competencies/team size
Software development – communication protocols, mobile platforms (1 person )
Software design –  Service-Oriented Architecture, model-driven development  (1 person)
Data Analysis  - pattern recognition, statistical analysis (1 person)
Team leader (1 person)
Team size: 3-4 persons

Development tools, environments and standards
Possibility: Linux (Ubuntu 9.10), Wireshark development tools, (any IDE), NoTA Rel 3. (reading of IBM Rational Tau, Service Oriented Architecture development)
Probability: Maemo 5 /N900 (Eclipse, Qt Designer), Symbian S60 v5.x (Carbide, Visual Studio) , OSX may also selected as platforms for service collaboration (Xcode)

Deliverables and time period
The Protocol plug-in; at least one demonstrative service which highlight the scalability and performance; pie charts, pdf reports and other visuals at least on 2 selected platform using at least 2 transport to support the conclusions and observations emphasized with the demonstrative service. Time period: May. 1 2010- November 26. 2010

Interaction between stakeholder and project team
The work will mainly be done at the Demola 'office' in Tampere, Finlayson. There will be regular meetings with the company partner and the team members. There will also be other forms of communication and guidance available to the team. The team will report the work by writing a team blog on the Demola website.

Support (supervision & financial)
Demola staff will supervise the reports and by the end of each month the team will also write a one page summary of the reported project actions, methods used, implemented software, and results.

Main contact person
Mihály Börzsei, NRC Tampere, Mihaly.Borzsei(at)nokia.com
Please also inform Demola Staff before you contact the company contact person.

Dipping into the code

Submitted by Teemu.Gustafsson on Mon, 06/09/2010 - 08:57

I've been mostly busy examining the code structure of the NoTA-hello-world test program and trying to modify it to play a game of "pingpong" between two terminals

so that the terminals would sent in turn messages to each other that say ping or pong.

Not a very useful program in itself but it will hopefully help me getting more aqcuinted with the code of a typical NoTA-app.

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Scratchbox running

Submitted by Aarno.Tenhunen on Mon, 23/08/2010 - 11:27

Scratchbox up and running! Still configuration to do with the environment, however developement should be much faster now. Hoping to get inter-device test application to work soon.

Going well

Submitted by pantura on Tue, 17/08/2010 - 12:24

Last thursday we had a meeting with NRC collaborators and with deeper information gained here the wireshark dissector for NoTA's lower interconnect layer is just finishing up.

So far all packets are recognized but layout and presentation needs a little honing. First patch to wireshark svn might be ready in a week.

NoTA Deep Dive still going

Submitted by Teemu.Gustafsson on Mon, 09/08/2010 - 08:19

At the start of week four of the project the linux enviroments have been mostly set up correctly and tested with the NoTA Hello World as well as with the keyboard service apps inside one computer but we haven't yet been able to make the software work between two machines through TCP/IP-protocol.

NoTA Deep dive has begun

Submitted by pantura on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 10:45

It's a week since the project started. NoTA stack is finally running after some configuring and project plan was just reviewed with minor changes to be made.The team is hard at work making the protocol analyzer plugin and most of all learning as it's new to everyone.

So far everything looks bright, we should hopefully be seeing first packets identified within a week or two.

Status: 
started