Front end for monitoring Mesh Network

By Lesetsa Mojapelo

Supervisor: Prof. W.D. TuckerCo-Supervisor: Mr M. NormanMentor: Mr Carlos Rey-Moreno

INTRODUCTION• The front end will provide a dashboard to

visualize information collected from various parameters

• Easier for network managers to monitor or manage the network

• Three main things to visualizeo Link Qualityo Network topology mapo Router/Node information

User Interface Specification (UIS)

UIS (Cont.)

UIS (Cont.)

UIS (Cont.)

HIGH LEVEL DESIGN

LOW LEVEL DESIGN• User login• Query the database for network information to display• Provide forms for the user to input changes to configuration settings• Visualize data and relationships between data in the database.

Project PlanTerm1 Research on possible project

Finalize the project

Gather user requirements and Analysis• Interview with network manager• Research on related work/similar projects

Term 2 Designing and preparing the prototype• Learn Google API programming• Design UI inline with URD• create HLD• create LLD• Create prototype

Term 3 Implementation • Make changes to the user interface if necessary• Add more functionality if necce • Start coding and documenting

Term 4 Testing and Evaluation• Plan the test-bed network• Setup the network

References• Geocodezip.com (2011) Google Maps API links. [online]

Available at: http://www.geocodezip.com [Accessed: 19 May 2013].

• Developers.google.com (2012) Google Maps Developer Documentation - Google Maps API — Google Developers. [online] Available at: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation [Accessed: 20 May 2013].

• [23] De T. Valle, R., Passos, D., Albuquerque, C., and Saade, D. Mesh topology viewer (mtv):an svg-based interactive mesh network topology visualization tool. In Computers and Communications,2008. ISCC 2008. IEEE Symposium on (July 2008), pp. 292 {297. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4625602. Accessed 19 April 2012.

DEMO• Create a network

o Add node• View the network topology map • View node list