Minutes of MMN BT URI project technical meeting
at IC DOC, Friday, July 17


0/ introductions & apologies

Apologies from Dave Hutchison (at PhD exam at UCL!)

Present:
Morris Sloman IC
Ian Marshall, BT
Jon Crowcroft, UCL
Mark Sandford, LU
Chris Roadknight, BT (roadknic@drake.bt.co.uk)
Daniel Waddington, Lancaster
Hamid Gharib, BT (hamid.gharib@bt.com)
Brian Cowe, Cambridge
Andrei Majidian, BT
Frank Ball, OBU
Davidl Parish LU 
Oscar Diaz-Alcantera, IC
James Cowan, UCL
Nat Pryce, IC
Phyllis Callinan, OBU
Iain Phillips, LU

1/ minutes/actions/agenda bashing
minutes agreed, agenda ok....

previous minutes are at 
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/mmn/minutes-4.3.98.txt


2/ work progress reports from each partner

ACTION ALL: Send URL (or HTML) of any presentation materials!

	Loughborough
		Ian talked about BT Demos, and Cambridge Integration
		with LU - gaves timescales  for workplan.......

		Mark presented ideas on LU work on automatic feature
		classification in the traces = there was some
		discussion of use of neural nets and other trendy AI techniques 
		for the problem

	UCL
		James presented UCL plans for server stack management

	IC
		Nat talked about ndover of config work to BT and Corba Lite

	Cambridge
		Brian talked about the xbind/switchlet status, and the problems 
		of version wars...also mentioned in an aside the problem with 
		a DNS upgrade and unix machines with multiple IP addresses.

	OBU
		Frank outlined the OBU QoS work - CBQ and RED and
		feedback control and various schedulers....
		BT asked if in future, partners could present work
		even if it had been seen by some folks at related
		(Umbrella/LEARNET) meetings!
	Lancaster
		Dan did an extensive presentation of the Lancaster
		work - he has the diskwall scheduler working and is now 
		looking at CPU shares and performance moniutoring - adaption 
                (UCL referred him to the UCL work - e.g. Bhatti's thesis), 
		and finally , the demo plans using DVD and video conferencing.
		see 

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/dan/publications/index.html

	BT
		Ian Marshall talked about the scalable server work  at
		BT based on a similar architecture to Avalon, but
		tuned for storage and network I/O rather than CPU.
		Chris talked about the work on WWW Cache analysis

3/ Papers, Patents, Projects
Papers:
ACTION:
	Ian asked everyone to send him a description of their part of
the project for a apper he is putting togerther for the BT Technology
Journal - electronic copy by end of september at latest - 20-3 papges
outling key results.
	We noted that Morris' IMM call was completed today - some partners
had several papers submitted.
	Jon drew everyone's attention to the IEEE IWQoS workshop to be
at UCL May 31-June 4, 1999 (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/iwqos99)

Patents - here may be some BT/lancaster patents after UCL and LUs.

Projects: 
Morris outlined some of the EPSRC MNA recent awards - several partners
were succesful, but mainly in the mobile area.
He also mentioned the HP/EPSRC Active Networks meeting (in september at HP
labs)

4/ Integration Plan
Ian talked about the piecewise plans for demo work and which
components would be shown - he wants this in August 99 - so we can do
a detailed write up in sep/oct 99 at end of the project - 
ACTION: we should all look at the work we are doing and recall which
(see http:www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/mmn/meetings.html
foor links to previous minutes which outline some of the plans - as
does the contract/proposal for y4/y5 work).


5/ T&D next meet
Proposed: Lancaster (ACTION dh@lancs to check its ok)
11am start.

First choice date 12/11/98
Second Choice 10/11/98

Long term plans - a meetng in Mar 1999, and one on July at Martlesham
to look at demo/integration of final work.

6/ AOB
none

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