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UNIMAS have managed to get 1 undergraduate students for their capstone project to use data collected above to perform some analysis/assessment on the end-to-end performance of Internet in SE Asia. This will be a 2 semester project. Progress?
Johari plans to get another undergraduate student from the capstone project. The Goal will be to build a PingER web site for UNIMAS. Progress?
Workshop
- Unimas plan to have a workshop on Pinger when Les comes in December. Unimas will invite participants from universities in West Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, (Brunei and Kalimantan could be added). The idea is to establish regional agreement for types of studies that can be undertaken, the sharing of data and exploration of future projects.
- Unimas have sent an itinerary. It is at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/128455354/Tentative+Itinerary+for+Les+Cotrell+Visit+in+Dec+2012.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1352078021290
. - Will UNIMAS will send a formal invite to Les to visit Unimas to assist with the visa?
- Les will give 2 talks of 1.5 hours each. One is of general interest, the other is technical. Les will send abstracts.
- for the order of a week or more to coincide with the Unimas 20 year anniversary celebrations on December 12th, 2012. Johari sent email to VC to get suitable dates. The visit will be 3-4 days. The idea is Les arrives on Wednesday 12th December, the full day workshop is on Thursday 13th, follwed by meetings with specific researchers on Friday 14th. The weekend is free. then on Monday 17th there are technical discussions. Bebo suggested that since the flight to Kuching will go through Kuala Lumpur, Les should visit MIMAS and give a talk. Johari will discuss What is MIMAS? Johari has discussed this with Nara.
- Last week Les met with the Muhammad Asghar the Rector of the Pakistan National University of Science and Technology (NUST) and Dr. Arshad Ali the Director General (DG) of the NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS). They were excited to hear of the upcoming roadmap. Arshad visited he University of Malaysia in KL (UM) in October 2011 and the VC of the UM recently visited NUST. Both sides are keen to reach out to one another. As a result of this they (NUST/SEECS) are interested in looking at how to engage a collaboration of NUST/SEECS, UNIMAS and SLAC on PingERThe NUST rector sent a memo to the VC of University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur suggesting a collaboration with UNIMAS, NUST & SLAC. Les followed up with an email to the UM folks. UM seem very receptive, Nara is following up. Possible ways to advance would include:
- Inviting to the workshop one or two people from NUST/SEECS who have been collaborating on PingER for some years, have set up a PingER archiving site and manage multiple PingER monitors in Pakistan. Email has been sent to NUST requesting they nominate a person.
- They could make valuable presentations on hands-on experiences (both technical, political and social) with building the archive site, managing multiple monitoring sites, mining the data, engaging customers (monitor sites contacts and decision makers, the network providers PERN (Pakistan Educational and Research Network), the funding agency (Higher Education Commission), preparing reports for the customers, and the benefits ensuing etc.
- Putting together a joint proposal (UNIMAS, NUST/SEECS, SLAC, possibly another Malaysian university such as UM) to a funding source for a joint project to set up a monitoring infrastructure for Malaysia educational sites.Arshad is also putting together a letter to the VC of UM.
- We could set up a 3 way Skype meeting to discuss this further, this time of day works for all sites.
- Inviting to the workshop one or two people from NUST/SEECS who have been collaborating on PingER for some years, have set up a PingER archiving site and manage multiple PingER monitors in Pakistan. Email has been sent to NUST requesting they nominate a person.
- If NUST funds their people this should be no problem. Otherwise Johari will need to discuss with Nara and engage the VC to see whether UNIMAS can fund themthe NUST person(s).
Future meetings
There was a council meeting at the end of September. Nara handed out the PingER brochures to the council members. Twelve Universities were at the meeting. They will contact the other universites universities to provid ethem provide them with information on the workshop.
UNIMAS PingER
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The UNIMAS PingER monitor is working and monitoring several non beacon sites in Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. Johari are you looking for hosts in Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos etc?
Imran has successfully assigned the DNS name pinger.unimas.my to the UNIMAS PingER monitor (49.50.236.98). The Srcname has been updatred and the meta database updated at SLAC. All was working for several days, however now the web server is not working, so we can't gather the data.
Extending UNIMAS PingER hosts monitoring
Joun has added around 15 more hosts within Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and SIngapore to pinger.xml. Planning to get few more hosts to cover Phillipines, and Vietnam.
The monitoring will provide an historical record of performance (round trip times, jitter, loss), reachability etc. Based on this a case study could be put together to identify problems in particular the reliability (e.g. MTBF, uptime, MTTF), how congested the connection is, identify problems and possibly identify the causes.
When a reasonable amount of data has been gathered then a case study could be be made of the connections to the remote sites, to identify and compare the performance. Les has made a quick look at the data and the UNIMAS connections looks rather congested. Can anything be done?
ePingER
See https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/ePingER+Project
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