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== Me ==
I am [http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~dmahoney Dan Mahoney], a computer science and math major in the [http://www.mscs.mu.edu/mscs/ MSCS Department] at [http://www.mu.edu Marquette University].  I am working on the [http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~brylow/xinu/ Embedded XINU Team] under [http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~brylow/ Dr. Brylow's] supervision.
== XINU ==
=== Week of May 18 ===
* REU Meeting
* XINU Meeting
* Began looking at trunk code and Tim Blattner's UDP implementation.  Registered on wiki pages and looked at website trees
* Looked through Blattner's network code
* Listened to Aaron's run down of XINU networking
* Read "The Linux Networking Architecture" - Chapter 14 - The Internet Protocol Suite
* Hours: 22
=== Week of May 25 ===
* Met with Aaron Gember and Dr. Brylow about how to approach the reorganization of the TCP/IP stack.
* Talked with Aaron about and went over the network stack code and architecture.
* Tried to grasp how the network stack functions and further read Blattner's code
* Finished chapter 14 of Linux Networking Architecture
* Meet with XINU Team for Tuesday Paper; discussed Aaron's paper presentation of Web Mesh Networks
* Hours: 22
=== Week of June 1 ===
* Made clean-ups to TCP/IP stack with Aaron and committed code to branch
* Began to work on netRecv.c
* Met with XINU Team for Tuesday paper; Discussed and listened to Adam K.'s presentation of [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1531793.1531805&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=42255763&CFTOKEN=58723437 Factored Operating Systems]
* Met with Team XINU to discuss updates and where we are headed
* Met with Flash group to discuss projects for Flash; I'll be unfolding the TRX creation tool.
* Watched Joe solder poorly!
* Aaron and I went over netRecv.c again.
* Started to read tools/firmware/trxwtrx-create.c 
* Hours: 22
=== Week of June 8===
* Read about Field Gate Programmable Arrays (FPGAs)
* TCP/IP Meeting
* Flash Meeting
* Wrote LaTeX on Traversal Cache Paper
* Read and discussed [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1450135.1450150&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=42255763&CFTOKEN=58723437 Traversal Caches: A First Step towards FPGA Acceleration of Pointer-Based Data Structures]
* Cleaned up lots of IP files
* Hours: 16
=== Week of June 15 ===
* Met with Aaron and Doc about how to handle some issues with the network stack, mostly how to handle ip source and destination routing
* Read and reviewed "Dingo: Taming Device Drivers"
* Discussed [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1519065.1519095&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=42255763&CFTOKEN=58723437 Dingo: Taming Device Drivers] with XINU Team
* Met with Flash division of XINU
* Finished off my portion of the Internet Layer
* Hours: 16
=== Week of June 22 ===
* Met with TCP/IP Group and Flash group to discuss situations and future of projects
* Looked over UDP code off of Blattner's Branch
* Look over routing code off of Blattner's Branch
* Read and Discussed [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1100861.1100921&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=42255763&CFTOKEN=58723437 A Real-Time Software Platform for the Cell Processor] at the Tuesday meeting
* Hours: 15
=== Week of June 29 ===
* Swept out IPv4
* Read and Discussed [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1227310.1227372&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=42255763&CFTOKEN=58723437 Mindstorms without Robotics] at the Tuesday Meeting
* Met with TCP/IP Group
* Editted TCP/IP REU Page
* Began reading Doug Comer and David Stevens' "Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume II, 3rd Edition" - Chapter 7: IP: Fragmentation and Reassembly
* Hours: 24
=== Week of July 6 ===
* Continued reading Doug Comer and David Stevens' "Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume II, 3rd Edition" - Chapter 7: IP: Fragmentation and Reassembly
* Read and Discussed [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1542452.1542461&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&CFID=44776012&CFTOKEN=54341462 Eliminating The Call Stack To Save Ram] at the Tuesday Meeting
* Read [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791 RFC 791] on IP Fragmenting and Reassembly
* Read [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_fragmentation IP Fragmentation Wiki]
* Read [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTU_%28networking%29 Maximum Transmission Unit Wiki]
* Made final local changes to TBlattner branch before Aaron merged into Networking branch
* Meet with Xinu had Thursday meeting and talked about where our projects are going to be going while Brylow is gone
* Hours: 24
=== Week of July 13 ===
* Read [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc815 RFC 815] on Simplified IP Fragmentation and Reassembly
* Continued IP Fragmentation Research by reading Doug Comer and David Stevens' "Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume II, 3rd Edition" - Chapter 7: IP: Fragmentation and Reassembly
* Read [http://penguin.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/academic/networks/network-layer/fragmentation/index.php IP Encapsulation, Fragmentation, and Reassembly]
* Read Tuesday Paper on [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1460096.1460165&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&CFID=44776012&CFTOKEN=54341462 Outdoor Augmented Reality on mMbile Phones Using Loxel-Based Visual Feature Organization]
* Listened to Zachary Lund's Defense on VoIP Telephony
* Went over IP Layer of Network StacK with Aaron Gember
* Listened to Aaron Gember's demostration on how to test the network stack and PCAP tracefiles
* Began testing of IP portion of network stack
* Went over Routing API with Aaron Gember
* Started to implement Routing
* Hours: 28
=== Week of July 20 ===
* Read and Discussed [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1540373.1540390&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=45046561&CFTOKEN=76789194 Implementation of integrated wireless health monitoring network]
* Worked on Routing
* Hours: 16
=== Week of July 13 ===
* Read and Discussed [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1542452.1542465&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=45046561&CFTOKEN=76789194 Software transactional memory for multicore embedded systems]
* Worked on Routing Implementation
* Worked more on Routing
* Hours: 20
=== Week of July 20 ===
=== Week of July 27 ===
* Read and discussed Tuesdays Paper
* Cleaned up IP functions
* Went through routing once more
* Hours: 20
=== Week of August 3 ===
* Read, discussed, and presented [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1086297.1086313&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=46522135&CFTOKEN=17066610 Memory Allocation for Embedded Systems with a Compile-Time-Unknown Scratch-Pad Size]
* Worked on routing, and ip packet fragmentation
* Worked on IP testing
* Asked Aaron many questions
* Hours: 26
=== Week of August 10 ===
* Worked on IP and UDP Testing
* Struggled with testing
* Created PCAP files for UDP
* Cleaned up IP portions of "new" trunk branch
* Worked with Aaron and Dr. Brylow on IP
* Asked Aaron many questions
* Hours: 32