APAN Working Groups Activity Report 2007

APAN Working Groups

APAN e-Science WG e-Science is broadly defined as science activities that rely on high bandwidth network connections. This may include the transfer of data, building / operating distributed archives, distributed data processing, access to documents or training, remote operation of facility instruments, & interactive collaborations. APAN has a natural role in e-Science through providing bandwidth & network operating tools.

e-Science WG Objectives Provide a venue for discussion of e-Science among scientists & between scientists & network administrators. Promote e-Science initiatives among APAN members, & between APAN & other international groups. Conduct of e-Science demonstration projects, training & outreach. Provide a venue for outreach & dissemination of successful & not so successful projects & what we can learn from them.

Participants at e-Science Workshops 21 st - 24 th APAN Meetings AARNet, GrangeNet, University of Queensland (Australia) AIST, Kyoto University (Japan)‏ NGO, NTU (Singapore)‏ ASGC (Taiwan)‏ NECTEC, Kasetsart University, UniNet, TNGC (Thailand)‏ AIST, Kyushu University (Japan)‏ KISTI, Seoul National University (Korea)‏ MIMOS (Malaysia)‏ ASGC (Taiwan)‏ SEAGF University of Philippines (Philippines)‏ Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Astronomy Observatory Institute of Information Technology (Vietnam)‏

Action Plans Formally soliciting active involvement of APAN members in e-Science WG Annually, e-Science WG will have: APAN 25(Hawaii): e-Science WG members update/activities APAN 26(NZ): e-Science projects presentation/demos Identify, define & undertake one e-Science project among APAN members

APAN Earth Monitoring WG Established: July 1998 Under Natural Resource Area Co-Chair: Pakorn Apaphant, Ph.D. Koki Iwao (AIST) (replace Hirokazu Yamamoto, AIST)‏ Vice Chair: Chris Elvidge, Ph.D Members from 12 countries India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, USA, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, and Singapore

Current Activities AIST is using GEOGRID to share ASTER image and existing land covered data Several Applications have been conducted through GEOGRID such as extraction of Urban Area Using ASTER Imagery and the Existing Land Cover Data Validating land cover maps with Degree Confluence Project information Validating Global Digital Elevation Models with Degree Confluence Project

Current Activities NOAA has developed and implemented Web Mapping Service For DMSP Satellite Data Products generated with IDL and Ruby Web Services Provided with Open Source Examples of Products Global Composites , Lunar Cycle Composites, and Gas Flaring

Current Activities China Remote Sensing Ground Station Capabilities Three ground stations at Sana, Kashi, Miyun to receive satellite data covering the entire China. Long-distance network transferring remote sensing data File transfer acceleration techniques are applied to improve the service Data compression Catche TCP protocol in network transfer

Current Activities AFFRIC/MAFFIN implements A Satellite Image Database System (SIDaB)‏ Automatic Forest Fire Information Reporting (AFFIRE) System Vegetation Dry Condition Monitoring AFFRIC/MAFFIN has continued updating the EMWG website Thailand has implemented ASIAES clearing house system Metadata of Satellite Image for natural hazard management

APAN HDTV WG  HDTV Delivery Toolkits Collaborations MPEG-2/MS VC1/AVC Compressed HD (5-25 Mbps)‏ DVCPRO HD (100Mbps)‏ HDCAM Compressed (270Mbps)‏ Uncompressed HD (sub Gbps ~ 1.5 Gbps)  Multi-channel High-quality Audio Delivery Toolkits  Software Echo Cancellation  Multicast-based HDTV distribution infrastructure (linking servers and clients)‏  HDTV contents sharing WWW Portal

Tutorial on HD/4K video and collaboration High Definition Video: Workflow from Cameras to CODECs Real Demos using un-compressed HD streaming by i-visto under IPsec b/w JP & KR Uncompressed HD Media Transport System Introducing DV, HDV into the Access Grid Discussion issues: Interoperability and standardization of HD video over IP HDTV over IP collaboration

1. Sheraton Xi’an Hotel, Xi’an venue, China 2. Kyushu U, Fukuoka, Japan 3. Kyoto 2nd Red-Cross Hospital, Kyoto, Japan 4. Hanyang U, Seoul, Korea 5. National Taiwan U, Taipei, Taiwan 6. Mahidol U Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand 7. Malaysia NOC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 8. Universitasklinkum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

1. Sheraton Xi'an Hotel, Xi'an venue, China 2. Korea U Hospital, Seoul, Korea 3. Japan: Tokyo Medical Dental University 4. National University of Singapore, Singapore 5. University Philippine Manila 6. Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India 7. Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia 8. University of Bordeaux2, Bordeaux, France

APAN Network Research Encourage graduate students and young researchers in APAN and related communities to present and publish their research results in the areas of: Network technology Network engineering Network measurement Application technology Communication technology Network architecture Middleware

APAN Network Research in APAN 24 th Meeting Xi'an China 26 papers submitted, 20 accepted, and 19 finals submitted (including one invited paper at Network Engineering Session)‏ Each paper was reviewed and judged by at least two reviewers Committee members: Yusheng Ji (Acting Chair), Xing Li, Shigeki Goto, Bu-Sung Lee, Simon C. Lin, and Sureswaran Ramadass CFP was made by Late Prof. Jun Matsukata

APAN Middleware WG The group also report back on 3 successful Identity Management tutorials that were held between APAN 23 and APAN 24 conferences, recordings online at Significant interest found in the eduroam talks, especially work underway in Australia (eduroam user group), Japan (user class authn), China (test bed) and Europe (overview of work to develop AAI bridges and eduroam/shib/AAI solutions via RADSec & DAME). Key outcome – an informal eduroam operator group will be established from AUS, CH, HK, JP, TW, with observers from EU, USA) to meet monthly to discuss eduroam issues. Other talks covered the areas of PKI/wi-fi. Key areas of need were identified in identity mgt/directory services to enable middleware to be deployed. All presentations are already online at ml ml

APAN Middleware WG Future: Theme “Middleware on the Campus” focusing on key issues of identity management in the areas of schemas, directories with some pointers on how this needs to be coordinated on a national and international level to support collaborations. The success of the middleware WG is due to APAN’s commitment and secretariat support to our activities. a combination of individuals assisting as chairs and speakers, we are deeply grateful for everyone’s support and their organizations

 Collaboration ◦ Stimulate more Grid computing collaboration inside APAN ◦ To collaborate with the Grid communities outside of APAN to enhance grid activities in Asia Pacific  Promotion ◦ To publish documents about grid technology ◦ To plan sessions/workshops/training activities related to grid technology in APAN meeting or others ◦ To archive knowledge obtained by the above activities Roles of Grid Committee

APAN Grid Committee  Most of the APAN member countries have one or many Grid computing initiative Community level: MalaysiaCommunity level: Malaysia National Level: Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, AustraliaNational Level: Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia  Grid activities in APAN e-Science WGe-Science WG Middleware WGMiddleware WG Grid committeeGrid committee

Collaboration in APAN

Approach in driving Grid Collaboration under APAN  Key Focus Bringing together grid practitioner in APAN WG such as middleware, E-science, e-culture to share common informationBringing together grid practitioner in APAN WG such as middleware, E-science, e-culture to share common information Focus more on the creating of the new opportunities in APAN regarding the grid by stimulating the cross WGs interactionFocus more on the creating of the new opportunities in APAN regarding the grid by stimulating the cross WGs interaction  Providing communication infrastructure and centralize information center for APAN grid activities Wiki, Mailing list  Focus on setting up common activities among various grid related WG in the next APAN meeting

 Objectives:  Prepare policies and guidelines for the security architecture for APAN Organization as well as monitoring its implementation.  To raise the security awareness and knowledge within APAN community, and  To cooperate with other international security efforts to raise security awareness, capabilities and interoperation globally.  To achieve the objectives the working group will conduct bi-annual Joint sessions/ Workshops/Tutorials and WG meetings during APAN meetings. (Potentially with NOC and Measurement WG).  Security architecture includes protection of the physical, intellectual, and electronic assets of the APAN, including its security policies, network access controls, virus protection, network administration and transaction security.  The security architecture must address issues relating to authentication, authorization, confidentiality, data integrity non-repudiation, and isolation. APAN Security WG

 Network Security Workshop  :00 – 10:30  4 Speakers  42+ Participants  Security WG Meeting  :00 – 11:30  30+ Participants  Discussion about sessions for next APAN meeting  One slot is requested to APAN Sec. for now  Consider a session proposal to Joint Techs Last Meeting Summary

 Design and Implementation of Large Scale URL Filtering  Kasom Koth-Arsa, Surachai Chitpinityol, Surasak Sanguanpong, Anan Phonphoem, and Chalermpol Chatampan  Kasetsart University, Bangkok, THAILAND  Experiences in Deploying Machines Registration and Integrated Linux Firewall with Traffic Shaper for Large Campus Network  Surachai Chitpinityol, Kasom Koth-Arsa, Surasak Sanguanpong, Pirawat Watanpongse, and Chalermpol Chatampan  Kasetsart University, Bangkok, THAILAND  Spam Statistics at APAN-JP NOC  Yasuichi Kitamura and Takatoshi Ikeda  NICT/APAN-JP, JAPAN  The design of connectivity detect system by reuse of SPAM Mail  Koji Okamura and Hiroaki Towata  Kyushu University, JAPAN Presentations