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Adib has updated the paper on Internet Performance and its Reflection on Socioeconomic Development in the ASEAN Countries to IEEE Access and sent to Les and Bebo for review. It has been reviewed and suggestions returned to Adib.Then we will need to find a suitable place to publish.
The BIND paper ("BIND: An Indexing Strategy for Big Data Processing") is now online. Adib will provide a URL or a copy of the paper so we can add it has been added to papers related to PingER.
There was a problem pinging the MA pinger.uum.edu.my. It is now working as promised.
PingER, see PingER Papers and Presentations
Adib, Bebo, Les met with Southampton Web observatory person. There seemed to be enthusiasm. Adib was going to send some materials to Southampton. The person at Southampton gave us some links. Adib is in the early stages of exploring what web observatory data to link with such as business context indicatorsm social media and government sites.
NUST: Updated 3/8/2018)
The student who was working on getting new Pakaistani MAs has completed the intership and left at the end of Feb. Wajahat is looking for new students, it will take ~3 weeks find and train one so no progress in setting up new MA
Wajahat proposes to get a list of the new Universities in Pakistan and contact them encouraging them to joining participate in PingER and set up MA. They have made a list of new university sites, communications networks, Labs in different regions of Pakistan (especially the remote regions) and will make contact.
There is an upcoming grant call for projects between Pakistan and the US. Topics may be focused on cybersecurity, health and education. It has not been announced yet. Wajahat will get the details and share them with the team as soon as they are available. It is interesting since getting a US partner appears to be a roadblock for many potential Pakistani responders. However, the topics may not be very related to PingER. For cyber the main things we could think of were: punching holes in firewalls to allow pings, how to misuse ping (e.g. ping-of-death, or using anomalous ping packets to deduce the OS etc. flood pings for DOS), host can respond to ping but applications do not work. Fear of misuse of pings can result in the system administrator, network administrator or cyber security blocking pings. Possibility might be a study of what fraction of say working www/dns etc. apps (i.e. checking if a host responds to the relevant port) do not respond to pings. This could be by application, by country or by region etc. Also how to protect a remote pinger traceroute or server from being used in DOS attacks.
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- 121.52.146.180 (kohat.edu.pk) down since Nov 22/2017. Wajahat recommends conitnuingcontinuing at least until the new student is up to speed (3/8/2018)
aup.seecs.edu.pk host is pingable, Wajahat still trying, not given up. Still down 4/15/2017, 7/3/2017, 8/11/2017, 9/16/2017 (does not ping), 1/8/2018 (pings). Contacted and they will fix the problem soon.10/24/2017. They are non responsive as of Jan 19, 2018. Disabled- pinger-ncp.ncp.edu.pk pings but can't gather data 8/11/2017 and 9/16/2017. Contacted. Pings but can't gather data 10/24/2017. They are in the process of restoring 1/17/2018. Still down February 28, 2018, await new student. (3/8/2018)
UNIMAS (No update 3/8/2018)
- Johari ran into a problem with the Raspberry Pi image creation. Apparently the image has to be burnt with exactly the same size as the capacity of the microSSD, and the latter varies. There may not be a solution. Do we give up?
- We have lost both MAs at UNIMAS:Johari is looking at updating the PingER Malaysia web site (pinger.unimas.my)
- We have lost both MAs at UNIMAS
- Johari has been unable to contact Hafiz to get MyREN monitor at UNIMAS (perfsonar-unimas.myren.net.my) working again. There was a dicussion between Johari and Adib. Adib confirm Hafiz is still at MYREN, MYREN are moving locations which may have impact on some servers and availability of Hafiz. Adib will try and contact Hafiz.
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