- Non-intuitive interaction with topology, low-level router configuration needed
- Manual changes have hard to predict outcomes
- Error-prone maintenance and update process
- No way to directly specify high-level requirements
Given a high-level network property and a network topology, figure out how to visualize to the user how the property affects the network configuration.
Preparation Notes
Debrief Notes
David Fischer, Junior Network Engineer
Hans-Peter Dullinger, Senior Network Engineer
We were asked by our stakeholder to derive the properties which we should later visualize. Here is a list of what we found in various papers and projects.
Split screen: Controls + Graph
Social media for network graphs
Full screen network graph
Programmable networks: 3 ideas PPT presentation (pdf)
Here's a video of our paper prototype in action:
(Direct download)
Since our paper prototype, we did two more iterations on the UI. One from the paper prototype to the clickable mockup (which we used for our study) and another for the video prototype. The changes are described in this document.
The general idea of our video was to show two scenarios. In both we first motivate our solution by showing the problem it solves. Then in the second part of each scenario we show how this action looks in our prototype specifically.
Here is the storyboard for the first scenario:
And here is the storyboard of the second scenario:
