Attendees
Anjum+, Kashif+, Johari*, Abdullah*, Badrul, Hanan, Saqib+, Les+, Raja*, Umar and Bebo* were invited.
The proposed meeting times for the next meeting are:
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Johari has set up a guest account for Anjum who will logon and look around and see if he can assist. The traceroute/ping server is important for the TULIP trilateration project.
UTM
Anjum visited University of Technology Malaysia (UTM) on the way back from UNIMAS to Pakistan. He met with Dr. Hanan. During Anjum's last visit to UTM he had asked Dr. Hanan to deploy PingER monitoring node at UTM. Dr Hanan has now appointed Saqib (PhD student at UTM) to complete the deployment. Dr. Hanan sent a request two to three days ago to the UTM network team for a live IP address. He does not expect a problem. Dr. Hanan has also agreed to explore the possibility of having a PhD student work on the data auto-correlation part for link error detections once the monitoring node is set up. Meanwhile Saquib has successfully installed the traceroute.pl and pinger2.pl software on a private IP address host at UTM. It now has a liver IP address try:
is working and we are successfully gathering data from it. The URL is http://161.139.146.158/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl
. The hosts needs to have a name (e.g. pinger.ut.my) registtered in DNS. The traceroute server is also running. It is at: http://161.139.146.158/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl, however all hops return * * *.
UM
Dr Nor Badrul Anuar Jumaat is planning to install PingER on a cloud at UM. The machines are virtualized and will be running Ubuntu Linux. Johari has sent Kashif's workshop presentations to Dr. Nor.
USM
Les met with Navaneethan Arjuman of USM at the TIP meeting in Hawaii. He seems interested in the research side of things. He is a researcher not an operations person and has been involved in network monitoring for 4 years. He talked of a tool they have developed called INFMON, if I heard right. He also is interested in a research proposal. He also strongly recommends we engage with MYREN. Les tried pinging www.usm.my but pings are blocked. He can ping nav6.usm.my. This host has been added to the hosts monitored from SLAC.
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The December report on Pakistani educational node connectivity has been sent to the Rector for distribution to HEC. This was posted at http://pinger.seecs.edu.pk/monthly-report/.
PingER at SLAC
The IEEE Spectrum article on the Digital Divide in Africa and PingER2 was published in the February issue. The soft copies are available at: http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/how-bad-is-africas-internet and http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/how-bad-is-africas-internet/a-simple-tool-for-measuring-digital-development.
The Les is working on a high level paper on PingER to be included in the IEEE Spectrum, February issue. He is also leading the preparation of the annual report to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) Standing Committee on Inter-regional Connectivity (SCIC) has also been completed. Anjum is providing information on Pakistan under a case study. The report is due to Harvey Newman for ICFA on January 18th.There is a draft case study of routing from UNIMAS to S. E. Asia, and in particular Malaysia .
TULIP
Raja has completed the MATLAB script and used it to generate some input files for Pakistan and Europe. However using the alpha values (function of both region and RTT value) found through the alpha analysis the distances were underestimates in some cases. He is working on finding the cause and possible solution.
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