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Me

I am Dan Mahoney, a computer science and math major in the MSCS Department at Marquette University. I am working on the Embedded XINU Team under 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 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 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 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 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 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 Eliminating The Call Stack To Save Ram at the Tuesday Meeting
• Read RFC 791 on IP Fragmenting and Reassembly
• Read IP Fragmentation Wiki
• Read 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 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 IP Encapsulation, Fragmentation, and Reassembly
• Read Tuesday Paper on 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 Implementation of integrated wireless health monitoring network
• Worked on Routing
• Hours: 16

Week of July 13

• Read and Discussed 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 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