Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:30:08 +0100
From: Renata Teixeira
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Dear colleagues,
We need your help to conduct our research and are giving away gift certificates! We have designed HostView, a tool that collects network performance data along with user feedback of the network. Traces collected with HostView will help us understand end-user perception of network performance and will guide our research on diagnosing performance problems. To thank you for installing HostView, we are giving away 50$ Amazon gift certificates to 40 users selected at random from the first 100 that run it for a month. You can also ask HostView to give you feedback on the health of your network connectivity and application bandwidth consumption.
HostView runs on MAC and Linux PCs. If you are not a Linux or MAC user, please forward this email to your colleagues and friends! Otherwise, please download HostView at: http://cmon.lip6.fr/EMD/Download.html.
Once HostView is running there isn't much for you to do, except one thing. HostView includes a "user questionnaire" that should take 1 minute to fill out. We are interested in knowing how you perceive the performance of your machine at various performance points. There are two ways to answer this questionnaire: either when it pop ups (at most 3 times a day) or by hitting the "I am annoyed button" when you are unsatisfied with your network performance. More details on how to answer the questions is in the user manual that you can grab from the EMD project webpage.
To see more about the tool and why we have done this, please see our web page at http://cmon.lip6.fr/EMD. A lot has gone into the development of HostView. We have tested and selected particular methods for data collection and data processing so as to have minimal overhead on your machine. A detailed description of HostView is in our Hotmetrics paper (http://hotmetrics.cs.caltech.edu/program.shtml).
To address privacy concerns we did a user survey and we designed our tool according to majority opinions from this input (e.g., we included a pause button). The survey results appeared as a short paper in the April 2010 issue of CCR. For your privacy, we have also implemented state-of-the art anonymization techniques. A description of our commitment to your privacy can be found on the project webpage as well.
Your help and participation is enormously appreciated!
Diana Joumblatt, Renata Teixeira
Laboratoire LIP6
CNRS AND UPMC Paris Universitas
Jaideep Chandrashekar, Nina Taft
Intel Labs, Berkeley
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