[Testing] Connectivity Test Discussion - test plan from Marvell

[Kim Quirk]

Great! Thanks Ronak.

Kim

On 6/7/07, Ronak Chokshi <rchokshi at marvell.com> wrote:
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>  Hi Kim and team,
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> I have listed most of the test cases that we have been working on and
> testing. Please feel to add / modify / delete the test cases based on our
> discussions on the Wednesday conf. call.
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> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/802.11s_Connectivity_Test_Plan#Test_cases_from_Marvell_for_the_OLPC_XOs
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> Thanks
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> Ronak
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> *From:* Kim Quirk [mailto:kim.quirk at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:38 PM
> *To:* Ronak Chokshi; Rajesh Bhagwat; Raja Banerjea; Ramya Dharshini
> Chandrasekaran; javier at cozybit.com
> *Cc:* office at laptop.org; Alan Cunningham; Dan Goldish; Christopher
> Blizzard; Dan Williams; Marcelo Tosatti; Richard Smith; Andres Salomon;
> William Mitchell Bradley; John (J5) Palmieri; Marco Pesenti Gritti;
> eben.eliason at gmail.com; testing at laptop.org; miguel at laptop.org
> *Subject:* Re: Connectivity Test Discussion, Minutes from 6/6/07
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> Minutes (also posted on internal wiki, 'Rollout and Deployment')
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>  June 6, 2007
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> Attending: Michail, Kim, Jim, Walter, Dan (rh), Miguel, Chris (rh),
> Cameron (rh), Zack (rh), Rajab (mv), Ronak (mv), Raja (mv)
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>    - Michail went through his low level 802.11s test plan:
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>                <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/802.11s_Connectivity_Test_Plan >
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>    - Path Discovery
>       - Used ping, ran tests over several hours, introduced new
>       nodes
>       - Found some lost pings in a noisy RF environment; no loss in
>       anachoic chamber
>       - Network randomly creates mesh paths if you don't force the
>       paths
>    - Communications Integrity
>       - Frame size (large frames) caused problems, so you need to
>       use scp to ensure large frames
>    - Performance testing
>       - Used Iperf
>       - To establish a baseline need to use UDP between 2 nodes
>       using 'infrastructure mode'
>       - Found that XO performance does not go down as quickly as 1/n
>       due to efficiencies in node-to-node connections
>       - Very difficult to make a repeatable non-forced mesh topology
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>       - Need to set up tests to look for starvation or memory issues
>       (over time)
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>    - Walter suggested some usage cases:
>       - 60 laptops, everyone talking to everyone
>       - 60 laptops, everyone talking to a server
>       - 15 groups of 4, or 4 groups of 15 (representing kids
>       collaborating in smaller groups)
>          - Groups defined geographically (clusters)
>          - Non-cluster Groups (with remote participants)
>       - Consider classroom topologies:
>          - Rows of students
>          - Circle of students
>          - Clusters
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>    - Tests to be added:
>       - Multicast and broadcast
>          - Non realtime
>          - Realtime
>       - Dynamic nature of the real world
>          - Nodes coming and going
>          - Reconfiguration of the network
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>    - Action items:
>       - Marvell India team has 20 laptops; Kim help them to get 40
>       more B2-2
>       - India is building up knowledge and an automated test bed
>       - Marvell with add their test plan to the wiki
>       - Cozybit will provide programmable anycast address
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>    - Items for Trial-2 schedule:
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>     - Operating while suspended
>          - Mesh beacons
>          - Programmable anycast
>          - Ascii entry for WEP keys
>          - Finish support for WiFi compatibility (WPA)
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> *IPv6 discussion*
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> The applications driving IPv6 are:
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>    - management of remote XOs
>    - allowing XOs to find other XOs around the world.
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> Need to understand what this requires for XO and for Server and implement.
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