[Nfd-dev] NdnCon bridge for NFD calls

[Davide Pesavento]

Jeff,

This sounds amazing! Congrats to everyone involved!

Regards,
Davide

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Burke, Jeff <jburke at remap.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Dear nfd-dev,
>
> Starting on Tuesday, Peter and Jiachen are going to attempt a bi-directional
> bridge between the nfd calls on BlueJeans and NdnCon.
>
> If you are interested in trying to participate via NdnCon (I would not rely
> on this just yet), please follow the informal instructions below first, and
> then 1) fetch the remap/confbridge stream 2) publish your own stream 3)
> enter the confbridge chatroom during the call.
>
> Please note that for now, for bidirectional participation (for others to
> hear you) you'll need to be manually added to the bridge by Jiachen after
> joining chat.   He or Peter will message you in NdnCon chat after that is
> done.
>
> Please bear with any weirdness... we're doing these "bridging" tests so that
> stability / performance issues don't impact the business of the calls.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> From: Ndn-pis on behalf of Jeff Burke
> Date: Monday, September 21, 2015 at 10:59 AM
> Subject: [Ndn-pis] Your help with ndncon testing
>
> Folks,
>
> We're going to be soon asking for help with testing ndncon (real-time
> conferencing over NDN for MacOS X) prior to the community meeting. More
> detailed instructions will come soon, but if you could try the following, it
> would be much appreciated:
>
> 0) Update your OS, if at all possible
> 1) Install the latest NFD, and start it
> 2) Download and install ndncon v0.6.3, per the instructions below
> 3) Start the app and run its auto-update feature (from the Help) menu
>
> Let us know if it appears to be compatible with your system.  Then, if you
> get this far, and have time:
>
> 4) Create a route to the testbed via your closest hub
> e.g.,  nfdc register / udp4://spurs.cs.ucla.edu
>
> 5) You should see test streams (e.g., "remap", "jb-desktop-test") appear in
> the left-hand side column of ndncon (perhaps restart if not). Click on the
> downward facing arrow/triangle at the right to see the various media
> available for the stream, and click on the arrow associated with a
> particular media thread, e.g., "camera" or "desktop" to fetch it.  Try
> different bandwidths if you have time. Feel free to publish too.
>
> Please report any issues or questions to Jiachen Wang
> <wangjiachen0 at outlook.com>.
>
> We'll have a more detailed request for specific tests coming soon... !
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
> From: "Gusev, Peter"
> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 9:40 PM
> Subject: ndncon v0.6.3
>
> Dear all,
>
> I’m pleased to announce that we are ready to share new ndncon version with
> you and kindly ask you to participate in early adopters tests.
>
> Please, take a look at ndncon test guide here. We’ve setup two test
> producers so you can try ndncon out. You can find more information in the
> guide, but in few words, we ask you try this:
> - configure ndncon and NFD on your machine
> - fetch from one of the test producers for 3-5 minutes and share log files
> with us (me and Jiachen).
>
> ndncon v0.6.3 can be downloaded from here. During last month, we’ve run
> numerous tests on our local testbed as well as existing NDN testbed trying
> to reveal weaknesses in fetching algorithms and improve stability and
> performance. We feel, that we’re reaching a tipping point in our tests where
> we can finally start using ndncon for our meetings. Documentation and wiki
> is still under development, but we’re planning to have it finalized by
> NDNComm.
>
> I would like to stress out that currently, ndncon provides a paradigm of
> “video twitter” - i.e. once you start publishing, anyone who can discover
> you, can fetch your streams. Thus, there is no notion of a “conference”.
> This task is intentionally left aside for future, because 1/ we were mainly
> focused on improving NDN-RTC, which was not trivial and 2/ it requires
> designing a smart signaling protocol for conferences coordination.
> Nevertheless, ndncon can and should be used for conferencing. We provided
> such features as group chats and screen sharing - essential attributes of
> modern group conferences.
>
> We hope you enjoy playing with ndncon and looking forward for any questions
> you may have!
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Peter Gusev
>
> peter at remap.ucla.edu
> +1 213 5872748
> peetonn_ (skype)
>
> Software Engineer/Programmer Analyst @ REMAP UCLA
>
> Video streaming/ICN networks/Creative Development
>
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