SCUBA: Focus and Context for Real-Time Mesh Network Health Diagnosis

Large-scale wireless metro-mesh networks consisting of hundreds of routers and thousands of clients suffer from a plethora of performance problems. The sheer scale of such networks, the abundance of performance metrics, and the absence of effective tools can quickly overwhelm a network operators' ability to diagnose these problems. As a solution, the authors present SCUBA, an interactive focus and context visualization framework for metro-mesh health diagnosis. SCUBA places performance metrics into multiple tiers or contexts, and displays only the topmost context by default to reduce screen clutter and to provide a broad contextual overview of network performance. A network operator can interactively focus on problem regions and zoom to progressively reveal more detailed contexts only in the focal region.