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Wajahat Hussain (SEECS)?; Saqib?; Johari?; Adib?; Fizi Jalil (MYREN); Dr. Charnsak Srisawatsakul+ (Ubru), Les+, Bebo?, Umar
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Looking into moving PingER to a "blockchain" database good for decentralize decentralizing distribution of data. Monitoring sites would then be able to write to a distributed ledger. This would change the architecture to a more peer to peer architecture. It helps with continuity of PingER since reduces dependence on a single site (SLAC). See Block Chain in Future PingER Projects. Bebo sent several references to Saqib who has looked at them. We could start with real-time data without including the whole archive, i.e. in parallel to the continued centrally managed archive. It would be a private Blockchain and hence not be as compute intensive as a public blockchain. Johari is also interested and will follow up with Bebo and Saqib.
Saqib gave an outstanding presentation at Guangzhou. There were a lot of discussions. Saqib has submitted to IEEE transactions and should hear mid May if it has been accepted. The conference is in September. Saqib and Bebo will discuss the next steps. Saqib wil will try and find a graduate student to work on it.
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