Description: There is a great need in networking experiment to visualize the experiment process. Visualization can not only help the researchers gain the intuitive views of how those experiments proceed, but also help us understand how the protocol works, and how the system behaves in different scenarios. Visualization can even expose the system's weird or abnormal behaviors, so that we can discover the bugs and bottleneck.

Now, we have content router system implemented, and the relevant experiment platform is also done. The students are required to provide a visualization solution for the "content router" experiment. The challenge is how to visualize the experiment in a straightforward, but vivid and effective style. How to depict the system's behaviors and different metrics in the visualization? How to minimize the overheads in the experiment caused by the visualization and so on?

Skill needed:

• Good programming skills in one programming language;
• Knowledge in graphical programming is a plus;
• Knowledge in network programming;
• Knowledge in UI design is a plus;

Focus gauge:

• Theory 2/5
• Coding / Implementation 5/5
• Reading 3/5
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