User:Jcowdy

About Me

I am a senior from Marquette University graduating August 2011 with a BS in Computer Science.

Time Log

May 31

REU orientation day

I have been oriented and know which way is up.

June 1

Weekly lab group meeting for individual progress reports.

Met with Dr Brylow to discuss some of the finer details of what I should be working on.

June 2

Experimented and familiarized myself with the XINU network stack.

Read bug reports relating to the network stack.

Met with Dr. Brylow to discuss and set milestones for our project.

June 3

Completed a graphic map of the network stack.[[1]]

Created the project page on the wiki. [[2]]

Created milestones.

June 7

• Weekly lab group meeting
• Started a high level documentation of the XINU network stack.
• Created a dead simple echo server/client to demonstrate the UDP networking features.

June 8

• Finished the UDP echo client/server example
• Wrote UDP documentation
• Started work on the TCP example
• Set up an account on the XINU wiki and added a new networking section [[3]]

June 9

• Added documentation to the XINU wiki for TCP[[4]], UDP [[5]], ARP [[6]], and Routing [[7]]
• Created an example program for sending and receiving messages over TCP[[8]]

July 18

• Tested maximum transmission rates over UDP.

July 19

• Did a statistical analysis of the effect of packet buffer pool size on networking performance.
• Standard lab meeting. Presented findings on max throughput testing and buffer size.

July 20

• Refactored testing functions and made them into shell commands.
• Bad Sci-fi night!