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This page documents the development of a discrete event simulator for P2P video streaming applications. This simulator captures important features of data-driven video streaming systems. In particular, it is designed to evaluate: (i) the performance of various segment scheduling algorithms; (ii) the potential of network coding in multi-layer P2P video streaming systems.
 
This page documents the development of a discrete event simulator for P2P video streaming applications. This simulator captures important features of data-driven video streaming systems. In particular, it is designed to evaluate: (i) the performance of various segment scheduling algorithms; (ii) the potential of network coding in multi-layer P2P video streaming systems.
 
   
 
   
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== Implementations ==
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== Todo List ==
  
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=== Done Classes ===
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We keep a short todo list here. For each todo item, we also list the expected workload, the current assignee, the tentative due date, and the completion time.
  
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=== Work-on-progress Classes ===
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{| class="wikitable"
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Event (ysa57)
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! Description
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! Workload (ppl-day)
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! Assignee
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! Tentative Duedate
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! Completion time
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| Reread and implement Meng Zhang's algorithm
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| 1.5
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| Cheng
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| March 18, 2009
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| March 18, 2009
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| Finalize the simulator engine
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| 1
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| Cheng
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| March 17, 2009
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| March 17, 2009
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| Generalize the scheduling algorithm for multiple layer problem
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| 3
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| N/A
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|-
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| Reorganize the evaluation setup subsection
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| 2
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| Yuanbin
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| March 18, 2009
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| March 18, 2009
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= High-Level Design =
  
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= Class Diagrams =
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We present the high level design of the pSim. Please find a coarse class diagram below, and the source file can be downloaded [[media:psim.dia|here]].
  
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* use long for time/offset in msec, which has a rollover time 24.85 days
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[[Image:psim.png|center|640px]]
  
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<pre>
 
  
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class Layer { // video layer, we divide each layer into fixed size blocks, we keep track of
 
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                    // block size and no blocks here
 
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    int layer; // layer number it belongs to, set to zero for nonscalable frame
 
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    int blockSize; // blocks are fixed size, in bytes
 
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    int noBlocks; // how many block here
 
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    int dataSize; // aggregate size of all blocks
 
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}
 
  
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class Frame { // video frame, read from trace file
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Some misc notes:
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    int no; // serial number
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* We use long for time/offset in msec, which has a rollover time 24.85 days
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    long deadlineOffset; // deadline offset compared to the start of the video, in msec
 
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    int totalSize; // total frame size in bytes, including all layers
 
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}
 
  
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class Segment { // packetized frames
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=== System Architecture ===
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    int no; // serial number
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The core of the simulator is a simulation engine that is abstracted as the
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    Vector<Frame> frames; // reference to included frame
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'''Simulator''' class. Since pSim is a discrete event simulator, the
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    int totalSize; // aggregate size in bytes
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'''Simulator''' class keeps track of a moving simulation time '''simTime''',
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    Hashtable<Integer, Layer> layers; // reference to layers of this frame, key is the layer id
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which is different from the wall clock (real-time). '''Simulator''' consists of
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    long getDeadline(); // returns the worst case deadline of this segment (first frame?)
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an '''EventQueue''' that provides the interface of push and pop an event from a
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}
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priority queue of the pending events. The pending events are sorted on the
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event time in the ascending order. '''Simulator''' works as the follows, in
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'''dispatchEvents''' method, the next event is popped from '''EventQueue'''.
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'''Simulator''' then update '''simTime''' and calls '''dispatch''' method to
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process that event using method '''dispatch''', and then drop the processed
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event away. '''Simulator''' then popped the next event from '''EventQueue'''
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and update '''simTime'''. That is, the method '''dispatchEvent''' is a forever
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loop, thus the caller must not expect '''dispatchEvent''' to return.
  
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class Video { // a media file, shared by a group of peers
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Other components in pSim add new events to '''Simulator''' by calling its
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    String filename; // video trace file path and name
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'''push''' method. The new events are pushed through '''EventQueue''' to
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    Hashtable<int, Frame> frameTrace; // frames read from the trace file
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'''CalendarQueue'''. '''CalendarQueue''' is an efficient implementation of
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    Hashtable<int, Segment> segmentTrace; // segments generated by the prepareSegments(...)
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priority queue, which achieves constant time complexity. We implement the
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    void prepareSegments(int noFrame); // packetize frames into segment,  
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Dynamic Calendar Queue (DCQ) based on a Berkeley implementation, which sort the
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        // noFrame indicates how many frames should we put in one segment;
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pending events on their '''time'''. We notice that we keep '''EventQueue'''
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        // we might implement other packtization schemes later.
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between '''Simulator''' and '''CalendarQueue''', in case we need to switch to
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}
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other priority queue implementation such as standard '''TreeMap'''.  
  
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Interface Node { // a network node, currently can be either a tracker or a peer
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In addition to '''EventQueue''', '''Simulator''' also consists of: (i)
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}
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'''Logger''' that is responsible for filtering and saving logging messages,
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(ii) '''RndGen''' that is the system-wide random number generator, and (iii)
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class Tracker implement Node { // holds a set of groups/videos
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'''SysParam''' that has all system parameters.
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    Vector<Group> groups; // all the video groups
 
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    void addPeer(Group group, Peer peer); // insert a peer into a video group
 
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}
 
  
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class Peer implements Node { // represent a running peer
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=== Event and Event Handler ===
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    int id; // sequential peer id
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Since '''Simulator''' class is driven by its priority queue of events, every
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    int ingressBW; // incoming bandwidth in bps
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'''Event''' must consist of enough information on how to process that
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    int egressBW; // outgoing bandwidth in bps
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'''Event'''. The main fields of '''Event''' include: '''type''' that is the
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    Hashtable<Video, Vector<Connection>> senders; // peers that we may send requests to
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event type, and '''time''' that is the event time. Moreover, the '''Event'''
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    Hashtable<Video, Vector<Connection>> receivers; // peers that we may send data to
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class maintains a vector of '''EventHandler''' interface, which specifies how
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    Connection tracker; // control connection to the tracker
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to process that '''Event''''. There is only an abstract method defined in
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    Hashtable<Video, VideoBufMap> vBufMaps; // points to the video-level buffer map
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'''EventHandler''', which is its '''handle''' function. The '''handle
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    void join(Video vide); // the peer joins a group
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function''' returns a log entry in '''String''' format. We note that this
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    void leave(Video video); //the peer leaves the group
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String must use pipe as the field delimiter, and should not contain any CR nor
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LF. See existing code for other convention of the log entries. Notice that,
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    void start(Video video); // start downloading a video
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each '''Event''' instance has no '''EventHandler''' initially: the class who
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    void stop(Video video); // stop downloading
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creates an '''Event''' must provide one or more '''EventHandler''' by calling
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}
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the method '''addHandler'''. Last, we mention that the '''dispatch''' method of
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'''Simulator''' retrieves all '''EventHandler''' by calling method
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'''getHandlers'''.
  
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class Group { // peers that have downloaded or want to download a Video
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'''Event''' has two subclasses: '''PeerEvent''' is for events that is local to
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    Video video; // media shared among peers
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a peer, e.g., a peer joins a video group is a '''PeerEvent''';
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    Vector<Peer> peers; // peers in this group
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'''NetworkEvent''' is for sending messages between two peers, e.g., a receiver
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    Vector<Peer> join(Peer peer); // adding a new peer into this group, and return a list of senders
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sends a '''CONNECTMSG''' to a sender. '''PeerEvent''' has two fields:
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    void leave(Peer peer); // removing a peer from this group
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'''Peer''' and '''Video'''. '''NetworkEvent''' has four fields: (i) '''conn'''
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}
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that captures the connection status between two peers, (ii) '''length''' that
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describes the length of this message, (iii) '''direction''' that indicates
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whether the message is sent from receiver to sender or not, and (iv)
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'''arrived''' shows whether the message has arrived at the destination. More
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precisely, a '''NetworkEvent''' is created with '''arrived''' value set to off,
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which means that event just enter the connection '''conn'''.  Following the
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bandwidth defined in '''conn''', we can compute when will the event arrives at
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the destination. This computation is done in '''tHandler''' that stands for
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transmission handler. The transmission handler processes a '''NetworkEvent'''
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as follows. First, it computes and updates the event time to be the time that
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event arrives at the destination. Second, it sets '''arrived''' to be true.
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Third, it pushes the same '''NetworkEvent''' back to '''EventQueue'''.
  
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class Connection { // end to end network link between two peers
 
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    Peer peer1; // one end
 
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    Peer peer2; // the other
 
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    long delay; // transmission delay in msec
 
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    int e2eBW; // end-to-end bandwidth in bps
 
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    int estimateRate; // estimated rate (maybe historical)
 
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}
 
  
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class VideoBufMap {
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=== Random Number Generator and Profiles ===
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    Hashtable<Integer, SegBufMap> sBufMaps; // points to segment bufmap
 
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class SegBufMap {
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TODO
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    Hashtable<Integer, LayerBufMap> lBufMaps; // points to layer bufmap
 
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class LayerBufMap {
 
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    boolean avail; // availability bit for this (video, segment, layer) tuple
 
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    NCBuf ncBuf; // network coding structure
 
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}
 
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class NCBuf {
 
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    boolean servCapibility; // Serving capability of each segment
 
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                                      // show whether this segment is capable of serving other peers(applicable in NC)
 
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    int noCodedBl; //  No. of encoded blocks for this (video,segment,layer)
 
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    BufferedMatrix matrix; // coefficients and their corresponding encoded blocks up to now
 
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}
 
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class BufferedMatrix{ // save coefficients and their corresponding encoded blocks up to now
 
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    Vector<Vector<Integer>> coef; // coefficients of the corresponding encoded blocks
 
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    Vector <Integer>encodedValue; // encoded blocks
 
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    Vector<Integer> decode(); // perform decoding process and return the original blocks of a segment
 
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    void encode(); // perform encoding process on blocks of a segment
 
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}
 
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class SysParam{ // system parameters that can be changed in each iteration of the simulation
 
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    float portionServ; // after receiving this portion of coded blocks out of total number of blocks, the segment is capable 
 
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    long skipSec; // time duration which is skipped from the current playback point for a new joined peer [in case of
 
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    float portionEncoding; // a given peer peform encoding among this portion of encoded blocks out of the total coded
 
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                                        blocks that has been received so far
 
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                                    // blocks for encoding will be chosen randomly out of all received encoded blocks [in case of 
 
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// the following classes implement the Galois field [in case of network coding]
 
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// coefficients should be selected randomly from Galois field
 
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class ExtendedGaloisField extends GaloisField { // extension of Galois field where you can create 
 
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    GaloisPolynomial[] alfaPowers;
 
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    GaloisPolynomial moduloPoly;
 
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    char alfa;
 
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    GaloisField base;
 
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    int pwr;
 
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public class GaloisField { // implementing the Galois field
 
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class GaloisPolynomial { //working with Polynomials
 
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    private int[] coefs; // coefs are selected from Galois field
 
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    private char alfa;
 
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    private GaloisField field;
 
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class GaloisException{
 
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// XXX TODO XXX
 
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class SlidingWindow{ // the sliding window which contains all the segments that the receiver is interested currently
 
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                                  // set it to a fixed size, for example 1 minute of videos
 
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                                    // the receiver first inform all its neighbors which part of the video it is interested currently,
 
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                                    // then its neighbors will send their bitmap of that part to the receiver for scheduling
 
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  int startOffset;        //the offset of the starting segment compared with the start of the video
 
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  int endOffset;          // the offset of the ending segment compared with the start of the video
 
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  double slidingWindowSize(); //get the size of the sliding window
 
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}
 
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class exchangeWindow{ // the exchange window is the front part of the sliding window.
 
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                                      //The unavailable segments in exchange window will be requested by the peer
 
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                                      // the field of this class is similar to that of the SlidingWindow class
 
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  int startOffset;
 
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  int endOffset;
 
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  void move();          // move the exchange window forward afte a scheduling period and do a next scheduling
 
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  double getSlidingWindowSize()
 
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interface Scheduler{ // any class wants to do scheduling should implement this interface
 
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  void schedule() throws simException; // the scheduling period is specified in the specific scheduling algorithm class
 
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class resultItem{ //this class records a scheduling item
 
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  int peerID;
 
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  int segID;
 
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  long startTime; //start time of the peer to transmit this segment
 
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class SchedulingResult{                // this class is used to record scheduling results and do some statistics,
 
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  Vector<resultItem> item;    // result item: <peerID, segID, startTime> (we may write this vector to a log file later)
 
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  long runningTime;                  //running time of the algorithm
 
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  long deliveryRatio;                //Average delivery ratio
 
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  double getDeliveryRatio();  //get the actual  average delivery ratio
 
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  double getRunningTime(); //get the running time
 
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class SEFF implements Scheduler{ // the Serial Earliest Finish-time First scheduling algorithm
 
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  SchedulingResult result;                // create a schedulingResult object to store the result
 
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  void schedule();                                  //implement the Scheduler interface
 
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  void writeResult();  //write scheduling result to the result object of one scheduling period
 
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class LRF implements Scheduler{ // the Local Rarest First algorithm
 
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  SchedulingResult result;                // create a schedulingResult object to store the result
 
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  void schedule();                                  //implement the Scheduler interface
 
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  void writeResult();  //write scheduling result to the result object of one scheduling period
 
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class RndGen { // common random number/event generators, to deal with
 
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                      // 1. event: add new receiver for a group/video
 
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                      // 2. event: remove a receiver from a group/video
 
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                      // 3. number: peer's bandwidth
 
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}
 
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class SimException {
 
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Interface EventHandler {
 
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    void handle() throws SimException; // callback function
 
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class Event {
 
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    long time; // when this event happens
 
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    Node src; // which peer generates this event
 
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    Node dst; // whom is destinate of this event
 
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    Vector<EventHandler> handlers; //process an event and update states accordingly
 
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    int type; // enum, see below
 
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    // 1. connectSent: peer 1 makes a connection to peer 2, and add each other into neighbors
 
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    // 2. connectArrived: the connect message is received by the peer 2
 
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    // 3. acceptSent: the potential sender reply with an accept message
 
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    // 4. acceptArrived: the accept message arrives at the connection originator
 
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    // 5. requestSent: a receiver sends a high-priority request message to a sender
 
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    // 6. requestArrived: a request message gets to a sender
 
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    // 7. dataSent: a sender sends a data segment
 
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    // 8. dataArrived: a data segment arrives to a receiver
 
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    // 9. joinSent: a join message to the tracker
 
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    // 10. joinArrived: a join message reaches the tracker
 
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    // 11. responseSent: a response message sent by the tracker
 
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    // 12. responseArrived: a response message reaches the receiver
 
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    // 13. scheduleStarted: a scheduling period started.
 
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    //14. bimapSyncSent: the receiver inform all its neighbors what part of the video it is interested currently
 
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                                          in order to get a small bitmap from them to do scheduleing, this message is sent
 
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                                            when the receiver: jumps to view another part of the video or a new neighbor joins.
 
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    //15. bitmapSyncArrived: the sender receives the bitmap Synchronization information
 
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    //There are two situations: 1. all scheduled segments arrived; 2. some segments are still in transmission.
 
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    void addHandler(Interface EventHandler); // add an additional event handler
 
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    void rmvHandler(Interface EventHandler); // remove an additional event handler
 
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class EventQueue {
 
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    void dispatch(Event event); // sequentially invoke even handlers
 
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class Simulator {
 
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    long simTime; // elapsed simulation time in msec
 
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= Performance metrics for scheduling =
 
= Performance metrics for scheduling =
  
 
Here are some performance metrics:
 
Here are some performance metrics:
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# Average delivery ratio: number of on-time scheduled segments over total number of segments to be scheduled
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1. Average delivery ratio: number of on-time scheduled segments over total number of segments to be scheduled
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# Load balance among senders
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2. Load balance among senders
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# Initial buffering time
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3. Initial buffering time
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# Time and space complexity of the scheduling algorithm
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Here are some performance metrics:
 
Here are some performance metrics:
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# Playback quality (PSNR)
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2. Resilience to peer dynamics (ability of maintaning good streaming quality)  
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# Resilience to peer dynamics (ability of maintaning good streaming quality)  
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# Required server capacity
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= How to install uml and svn tools in eclipse3.2.x =  
 
= How to install uml and svn tools in eclipse3.2.x =  
  
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*. Install emul2
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*# Go to "http://www.soyatec.com/euml2/installation/", download its free edition. (Select the right version according to your eclipse)
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*# Open your eclipse, and go to Help -> Software Updates -> Find and install ... -> Search for new features to install -> New  Remote Site
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*# For more details on how to use subclipse, please refer to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecl-subversion/
  
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= The project directory =
 
= The project directory =
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I've put the psim project to "https://cs-svn.cs.surrey.sfu.ca/svn/nsl/schedule/psim". You can check it out in eclipse with subclipse.
 
I've put the psim project to "https://cs-svn.cs.surrey.sfu.ca/svn/nsl/schedule/psim". You can check it out in eclipse with subclipse.

Latest revision as of 22:19, 24 March 2009

This page documents the development of a discrete event simulator for P2P video streaming applications. This simulator captures important features of data-driven video streaming systems. In particular, it is designed to evaluate: (i) the performance of various segment scheduling algorithms; (ii) the potential of network coding in multi-layer P2P video streaming systems.

Todo List

We keep a short todo list here. For each todo item, we also list the expected workload, the current assignee, the tentative due date, and the completion time.

Description Workload (ppl-day) Assignee Tentative Duedate Completion time
Reread and implement Meng Zhang's algorithm 1.5 Cheng March 18, 2009 March 18, 2009
Finalize the simulator engine 1 Cheng March 17, 2009 March 17, 2009
Generalize the scheduling algorithm for multiple layer problem 3 N/A
Reorganize the evaluation setup subsection 2 Yuanbin March 18, 2009 March 18, 2009

High-Level Design

We present the high level design of the pSim. Please find a coarse class diagram below, and the source file can be downloaded here.

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Some misc notes:

  • We use long for time/offset in msec, which has a rollover time 24.85 days

System Architecture

The core of the simulator is a simulation engine that is abstracted as the Simulator class. Since pSim is a discrete event simulator, the Simulator class keeps track of a moving simulation time simTime, which is different from the wall clock (real-time). Simulator consists of an EventQueue that provides the interface of push and pop an event from a priority queue of the pending events. The pending events are sorted on the event time in the ascending order. Simulator works as the follows, in dispatchEvents method, the next event is popped from EventQueue. Simulator then update simTime and calls dispatch method to process that event using method dispatch, and then drop the processed event away. Simulator then popped the next event from EventQueue and update simTime. That is, the method dispatchEvent is a forever loop, thus the caller must not expect dispatchEvent to return.

Other components in pSim add new events to Simulator by calling its push method. The new events are pushed through EventQueue to CalendarQueue. CalendarQueue is an efficient implementation of priority queue, which achieves constant time complexity. We implement the Dynamic Calendar Queue (DCQ) based on a Berkeley implementation, which sort the pending events on their time. We notice that we keep EventQueue between Simulator and CalendarQueue, in case we need to switch to other priority queue implementation such as standard TreeMap.

In addition to EventQueue, Simulator also consists of: (i) Logger that is responsible for filtering and saving logging messages, (ii) RndGen that is the system-wide random number generator, and (iii) SysParam that has all system parameters.

Event and Event Handler

Since Simulator class is driven by its priority queue of events, every Event must consist of enough information on how to process that Event. The main fields of Event include: type that is the event type, and time that is the event time. Moreover, the Event class maintains a vector of EventHandler interface, which specifies how to process that Event'. There is only an abstract method defined in EventHandler, which is its handle function. The handle function returns a log entry in String format. We note that this String must use pipe as the field delimiter, and should not contain any CR nor LF. See existing code for other convention of the log entries. Notice that, each Event instance has no EventHandler initially: the class who creates an Event must provide one or more EventHandler by calling the method addHandler. Last, we mention that the dispatch method of Simulator retrieves all EventHandler by calling method getHandlers.

Event has two subclasses: PeerEvent is for events that is local to a peer, e.g., a peer joins a video group is a PeerEvent; NetworkEvent is for sending messages between two peers, e.g., a receiver sends a CONNECTMSG to a sender. PeerEvent has two fields: Peer and Video. NetworkEvent has four fields: (i) conn that captures the connection status between two peers, (ii) length that describes the length of this message, (iii) direction that indicates whether the message is sent from receiver to sender or not, and (iv) arrived shows whether the message has arrived at the destination. More precisely, a NetworkEvent is created with arrived value set to off, which means that event just enter the connection conn. Following the bandwidth defined in conn, we can compute when will the event arrives at the destination. This computation is done in tHandler that stands for transmission handler. The transmission handler processes a NetworkEvent as follows. First, it computes and updates the event time to be the time that event arrives at the destination. Second, it sets arrived to be true. Third, it pushes the same NetworkEvent back to EventQueue.


Random Number Generator and Profiles

TODO


Performance metrics for scheduling

Here are some performance metrics:

  1. Average delivery ratio: number of on-time scheduled segments over total number of segments to be scheduled
  2. Load balance among senders
  3. Initial buffering time
  4. Time and space complexity of the scheduling algorithm


Performance metrics for network coding

Here are some performance metrics:

  1. Playback quality (PSNR)
  2. Resilience to peer dynamics (ability of maintaning good streaming quality)
  3. Required server capacity


How to install uml and svn tools in eclipse3.2.x

  • Install emul2
    1. Go to "http://www.soyatec.com/euml2/installation/", download its free edition. (Select the right version according to your eclipse)
    2. Unpack the zip file
    3. Open your eclipse, and go to Help -> Software Updates -> Find and install ... -> Search for new features to install -> New local site then find the unpakced file to install it.
    4. How to use: after you creating a new java project, go to File -> New -> Other, select the "UML2 Class Diagram" under the eUML directory, then you can create a class diagram for your project .


  • Install subclipse
    1. Open your eclipse, and go to Help -> Software Updates -> Find and install ... -> Search for new features to install -> New Remote Site
    2. Add "http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x" to the URL field and add an arbitrary name to the Name field
    3. Follow the instruction to install it.
    4. If you encounter an error like "Subclipse Integration for Mylyn 3.x (Optional) (3.0.0) requires plug-in "org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.core (3.0.0)" don't worry, just deselect the "Integrations" item and continue to install.
    5. Go to Window -> Preferences -> Team. If you can see SVN under the Team tab, congratulations, your installation is done.
    6. How to use: right click the project you want to commit, select Tean -> Share project -> SVN, input the URL of your svn server, then you can import your project to it.
    7. For more details on how to use subclipse, please refer to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecl-subversion/


The project directory

I've put the psim project to "https://cs-svn.cs.surrey.sfu.ca/svn/nsl/schedule/psim". You can check it out in eclipse with subclipse.

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