<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Jiacheng<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I sent your report to NDN Testbed Operations.</div><div dir="auto">They have corrected this disparity.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yours, Junxiao</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 14:54 JIACHENG HOU <<a href="mailto:houdemi@outlook.com">houdemi@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Junxiao,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you so much for your help. It helps me a lot. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I checked the web page: <a href="https://ndndemo.arl.wustl.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
https://ndndemo.arl.wustl.edu/</a>. It seems like the latest NDN testbed contains 37 NDN nodes. However, the visual view (at the bottom of the page) of the testbed topology only contains 35 NDN nodes. I am having trouble drawing a visual of NDN topology. I
am wondering if a visual view of the latest NDN testbed is available? <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Again, thank you very much.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jiacheng<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Junxiao Shi <<a href="mailto:shijunxiao@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">shijunxiao@email.arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, April 2, 2021 at 1:54 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>JIACHENG HOU <<a href="mailto:houdemi@outlook.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">houdemi@outlook.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Saurab Dulal (sdulal)" <<a href="mailto:sdulal@memphis.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sdulal@memphis.edu</a>>, "<a href="mailto:mini-ndn@lists.cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mini-ndn@lists.cs.ucla.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:mini-ndn@lists.cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mini-ndn@lists.cs.ucla.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [EXT]Re: [Mini-NDN] NDN benchmark topology<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Jiacheng<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0e101a">2. I am planning to have a visual view of ndn topologies. However, I am not sure how to show the NDN topology in a 2-dimensional grid. I search online
and only find a NDN testbed (<a href="https://www.arl.wustl.edu/~jdd/ndnstatus/ndn_prefix/tbs_ndnx_new.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.arl.wustl.edu/~jdd/ndnstatus/ndn_prefix/tbs_ndnx_new.html</a>) that has a good visual view. I am thinking about how to
draw a visual view of NDN topologies?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0e101a">If you look at the top of that page, it's the testbed status as of 2015.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0e101a">The current testbed status page is at </span><a href="https://ndndemo.arl.wustl.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://ndndemo.arl.wustl.edu/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0e101a">1. How to set the hyperbolic coordinates for ndn nodes if I want to custom topology in mini-ndn. I am thinking that I can’t randomly pick some numbers
as hyperbolic coordinates. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I asked this very question to NLSR maintainers.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The mathematics model is at <a href="https://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2010/hyperbolic_geometry_complex/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2010/hyperbolic_geometry_complex/</a> and <a href="https://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/hyperbolic-graph-generator/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/hyperbolic-graph-generator/</a>
, but I cannot understand them.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The actual coordinates used on the testbed is determined by querying the BGP AS number of each node in this dataset:
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, this dataset was generated in 2013, and many AS numbers active today after missing. I personally have at least 3 servers having AS numbers not in this dataset.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0e101a">3. I cloned the mini-ndn git version 76dbe6633c10f4e833c9329482b10b8b44a0417d rather than the newest version. In the older version, topologies are not
the same as topologies in the newest mini-ndn git version. The topology "<a href="https://github.com/named-data/mini-ndn/blob/76dbe6633c10f4e833c9329482b10b8b44a0417d/topologies/current-testbed.conf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:#4a6ee0">current-testbed.conf</span></a>"
and "<a href="https://github.com/named-data/mini-ndn/blob/76dbe6633c10f4e833c9329482b10b8b44a0417d/topologies/minindn.testbed.conf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:#4a6ee0">minindn.testbed.conf</span></a>" are different from the latest testbed. I am wondering
if topologies “current-testbed.conf” and "minindn.testbed.conf" are actual NDN testbed topologies?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can see the current testbed configuration from one of these resources:<u></u><u></u></p>
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Ansible variables for each node: <a href="https://github.com/WU-ARL/NDN_Ansible/tree/master/host_vars" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/WU-ARL/NDN_Ansible/tree/master/host_vars</a><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
JSON document describing the testbed nodes: <a href="https://ndndemo.arl.wustl.edu/testbed-nodes.json" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://ndndemo.arl.wustl.edu/testbed-nodes.json</a><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
Live NLSR status: <a href="https://nlsr-status.ndn.today/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://nlsr-status.ndn.today/</a><u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yours, Junxiao<u></u><u></u></p>
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