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- Following the workshop Johari contacted a MYREN technical guy who seemed very interested and there has been an exchange of emails. PingER monitors have been installed and are working at MYREN hosts in Cyberjaya and at UNIMAS. The traceroute servers also work. They plan to add an extra 10 monitors.
- Anjum and Raja have been working on a paper on Geolocation as developed for TULIP. Using an exponential relation between the Directivity (Alpha) and RTT for Pakistan the accuracy is ~ 18Km. Now Raja needs to run for Europe and the US. Meanwhile Raja has got a job and has less time to work on this so it was stalled. Les contacted Raja and Raja agrees it is important to finish the measurements and the paper, and will endeavor to do so.
- Anjum's contract has been extended for 1 year
- Saqib's contract expired last month, he will be returning to Pakistan
- The 2015 ICFA/SCIC reprt is completed. It is available at
Bebo will be in Kuching for the CITA 2015 (see http://www.cita.my/ an International Conference 4th - 6th August 2015, on transforming Big Data into Knowledge, Sponsored by UNIMAS and including workshops) that precedes the RAIN FOREST MUSIC FESTIVAL. Is there interest in co-locating a PingER workshop? Also Ridzuan or Ibrahim or Renan have interest in submitting a full paper by March 2nd 2015. Johari will suggest to the conference committee on having a workshop/tutorial session about PingER project. We need a specific topic for the workshop, and it should be inline with the conference theme which is about big data,
UUM
There have been several extended periods where we cannot gather data from the pinger.uum.edu.my , see the plot below where black indicates no data gathered. Adib fixes these outages when he is notified. It would be good to automate these recoveries. Email has been sent to Adib asking if this can be done.
is down Jan 31st, Feb 1st. Adib is trying to get more reliable power (UPS).
Renan
No update 1/7/2015.
Maria Luiza Campos of UFRJ reports that there are people at UFRJ taking care of the PingER data analytics project at this moment. Maria is now in LOA Trento Italy for 1 year post doc. Adriana Vivacqua, is now in charge of this subproject at CRDB at UFRJ. There are 11 people on the team: 4 professors1 post doc, 1 doctoral student, 2 masters students and 3 undergraduates.There is a document in which they describe the project proposal with more details.
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